The theme of Wai-yin Wong’s art works is more likely to get back to the history. She pays more attention to the “nature” rather than show off her work. Her works are more described as sculpture, although she doesn’t think her artworks are the same as sculptures. She thinks that “sculpture” is a form of art that is quite masculine. It need more space and more powerful. So at the beginning, she was too weak to admit that she is a sculptor. But later on, she found that her way of thinking is just what is needed to create sculpture. People always stress on the uniqueness of sculpture is the ability to show a real object to the audience. But on a contrary, she has been thinking of making a piece of work that makes itself ordinary to look at. She wants to make good use of the space (the exhibiting venue) itself but only to put something hiding in a corner. But even that, she thinks she is always trying to seek reflection on the component of sculpture.
She always uses paper to make her work. Paper is soft and can easily be turned into other shapes. Objects have lost the original function by using paper, only left the plausible appearance that can make people feeling between reality and fiction. She used paper combining with feminine beauty make the artwork become more delicate.
Once Wai-yin Wong has attended an exhibition and treated as an artist’s girlfriend during the trip, even without a name. That is the only time she thought about Feminism Art. Since then her artworks are more focus on female society.
Also she thinks that nowadays many people use computer as a kind of supplementary to painting, they think that computers will lead them closely to modernity. But she thinks that since we can draw with our precious hands, then why we use computers instead of doing by ourselves? So she is always trying to be nature, to be honest. She does the job all by her own hands.
In Wai-yin Wang’s work, the “original” of art seems of no value. She imitates the works that already existed and reproduce the former work. She reproduces each details and place them in the corner. People often cannot recognize the artwork and normal objects.
Marit:
回复删除Being a conceptual artist, I think Wong Wai Yin’s work is quite limited to its medium. She always uses paper as the main medium to create. However, I think a conceptual artist should not be restricted by the form and the medium to express his or her idea.
I was impressed by her lately concept that dating is an OLE (other learning experience) for the secondary students. As she claimed that love should be one of the topics taught in the schools, so, dating should be regarded as an activity for the students to learn how to love. The idea was very simple but it aroused the social concern. The society, especially the education sector, thought that it was nonsense and ridiculous. But I admired her idea as it reminded us that love is a very important thing that worth spending a life time to learn!