The main concept of Wai-yin Wong's art work is probably 'come back to making art by hands'.
She thinks that these days people use too much technology to decorate the art work. She thinks that craftsmanship has to be used properly and also in a natural way, or else it will leave a false feeling of showing off its technique only.
“I usually avoid that question,” she says, when asked why she makes art. “If I think about it too much, it seems like there’s no reason for it.” She laughs. “It’s been really natural. Since I entered the program at Chinese University, I’ve had a lot of opportunities.” After she finished her BFA, she did an MA in fine art at Leeds University, on a British Chevening Postgraduate Scholarship. In 2008, she showed work in ten separate exhibitions.
Despite her rising star, she still has to contend with being treated as a girlfriend rather than an artist. Last year during the exhibition Inside Looking Out at Osage Beijing, she was introduced a number of times as Kwan’s girlfriend. “It was as if I was an object, like a flowerpot,” she says, laughing. In response, she made a video, Tribute to <Inside Looking Out> – For the male artists along my way. In the video, she appears to be hitting each of the six artists – all friends from university, including Tozer Pak Sheung-chuen and Lee Kit – in the head with a stool. “It’s the only time I’ve made art from a feminist perspective,” she says. Ironically, Tribute is her most violent work.
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