Exhibition

Wong Ping: Heart Digger

5 Jul 2019 – 15 Sep 2019

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 21:00

Cost of entry

free admission

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Camden Art Centre

London
England, United Kingdom

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Wong Ping (b. 1984 Hong Kong) creates digital and sculptural works that reveal very human, and often universal fantasies, through absurd narratives. The exhibition continues at a temporary space, 5-6 Cork Street, Mayfair

About

Drawing anecdotally from his own social encounters, he elaborates his stories into darkly humorous tales that touch on political and cultural anxieties. Digitally rendered in a seductive, technicolour language that recalls the modernism of Fernand Leger, the pop languages of Tom Wesselman or Allen Jones, as well as the design aesthetic of The Memphis Group and early 1980s video games, Wong’s simple but seductive animations disguise a deeper social critique of technological modernity.

Wong Ping is the inaugural recipient of Camden Art Centre’s new Emerging Artist Prize (2018). CAC’s Emerging Artist Prize was established in 2018 as part of the Centre’s commitment to nurturing and celebrating the most innovative artists of the moment, who have yet to receive the recognition their work deserves. The prize awards an artist exhibiting in the Focus section of Frieze London with an exhibition at CAC.

Camden Arts Centre at Cork Street

The Cork Street exhibition includes new inflatable sculptures, video installations, and two recent works – Fables 1 (2018) and Fables 2 (2019). Part of an ongoing series, these films are morality tales re-written for our dystopian age – modern day Aesop’s Fables. Wong’s creatures, including a convicted capitalist cow, a three-headed homicidal rabbit, and a telepathic tree, become the focal points of subversive domestic fantasies, holding a mirror to our own humanity.

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Wong Ping

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