BIOGRAPHY
Wong lives and based in Hong Kong. She received her Master of Fine Art (Creative Media) from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2019 and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University. With a background in painting, she explores and unveils the manifolds of daily encounters and inner conditions. She regards her practice as an investigation of the potentials of art beyond representation, its relation to sensation, documentation and experience. Her interest in the experiential quality of works leads her to engage in experiments with videography, sound and installations.
Her works have been shown in Hong Kong and internationally; including the Lisbon Art Weekend (2022), Singapore Art Week (2021), Art Basel (2021), Hong Kong International Photo Festival (2020), Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2018), Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (2018), Oi! Street Art Space (2017), EXIS Korea (2017), and Poland Szczecin European Film Festival (2017). She was one of the selected artists for 1a Space’s Emerging Talents in Contemporary Art (2020), Art-Uni-On (AUO) Artist Mentoring Program (2017) in Korea, and was awarded a scholarship from Hong Kong Art Centre to attend the Culture, Graphic Design and Fine Arts program in New York School of Visual Arts (2013).
Elaine currently teaches in Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University and Hong Kong Design Institute. She is also the founder of Altermodernists, an independent art group that is devoted to the documentation of artists’ creative processes and promote visual arts in Hong Kong.
Her works have been shown in Hong Kong and internationally; including the Lisbon Art Weekend (2022), Singapore Art Week (2021), Art Basel (2021), Hong Kong International Photo Festival (2020), Hong Kong Heritage Museum (2018), Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre (2018), Oi! Street Art Space (2017), EXIS Korea (2017), and Poland Szczecin European Film Festival (2017). She was one of the selected artists for 1a Space’s Emerging Talents in Contemporary Art (2020), Art-Uni-On (AUO) Artist Mentoring Program (2017) in Korea, and was awarded a scholarship from Hong Kong Art Centre to attend the Culture, Graphic Design and Fine Arts program in New York School of Visual Arts (2013).
Elaine currently teaches in Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University and Hong Kong Design Institute. She is also the founder of Altermodernists, an independent art group that is devoted to the documentation of artists’ creative processes and promote visual arts in Hong Kong.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice is an attempt to actualise an immanent world without boundaries.
Through investigations in the potentials of art beyond representation, my works explore, unwind and entangle in the manifolds of daily encounters and inner conditions to transduce their oscillations.
I intend to catalyse the expression of the incomprehensible connections among the layered realities of living related to our feelings and imaginations. The relationship between sensation, affect and experience is an important aspect of my research.
Borrowing Deleuze’s concept of the fold, I unfold the infinite realities with the media. The creative process is a journey of discovering fragments of realities and folding them to become works of art.
(Jan 2022)
Through investigations in the potentials of art beyond representation, my works explore, unwind and entangle in the manifolds of daily encounters and inner conditions to transduce their oscillations.
I intend to catalyse the expression of the incomprehensible connections among the layered realities of living related to our feelings and imaginations. The relationship between sensation, affect and experience is an important aspect of my research.
Borrowing Deleuze’s concept of the fold, I unfold the infinite realities with the media. The creative process is a journey of discovering fragments of realities and folding them to become works of art.
(Jan 2022)