༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽ ~♡ is the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia by the Hong Kong-based artist Wong Ping. The exhibition continues Kunsthall Stavanger’s focus in 2021–22 on artists working with digital and screen-based art, which will culminate in the launch of a new digital platform in September 2022.

Through animations, sculptures and installations, Wong Ping tells stories that challenge our habitual ideas of human desire, loneliness, shame and repressed sexuality. Wong’s animations are rendered in a bright aesthetic reminiscent of early video games. This light-hearted, humorous, and accessible visual language helps to diffuse lewd and offbeat stories that explore dark corners of human nature, in which protagonists often experience deep psychological issues, as well as simultaneously disguising meditations on larger societal structures such as immigration, social relations, economic anxieties, and morality.

As a Hong Kong native, Wong’s observations of the city’s residents’ daily lives and mindsets are a central element

༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽ ~♡ is the first solo exhibition in Scandinavia by the Hong Kong-based artist Wong Ping. The exhibition continues Kunsthall Stavanger’s focus in 2021–22 on artists working with digital and screen-based art, which will culminate in the launch of a new digital platform in September 2022.

Through animations, sculptures and installations, Wong Ping tells stories that challenge our habitual ideas of human desire, loneliness, shame and repressed sexuality. Wong’s animations are rendered in a bright aesthetic reminiscent of early video games. This light-hearted, humorous, and accessible visual language helps to diffuse lewd and offbeat stories that explore dark corners of human nature, in which protagonists often experience deep psychological issues, as well as simultaneously disguising meditations on larger societal structures such as immigration, social relations, economic anxieties, and morality.

As a Hong Kong native, Wong’s observations of the city’s residents’ daily lives and mindsets are a central element in his works, where he presents reflections on the changing social and economic environment in the region, with emphasis on Hong Kong’s tense relations with mainland China. In the context of a community under siege, specifically wherein political dissent has become tantamount to criminal behavior, the artist’s playfully subversive practice is as important, powerful and progressive as any. Many of Wong Ping’s works reveal themselves as metaphors for larger systemic issues, such as immigration, social relations, and economic anxieties.

The exhibition is supported by Fritt Ord.

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