Rehearsed, Mirrored: Dance of Falling #1

Isaac Chong Wai

Isaac Chong Wai’nin pratiğine yerleştirdiği kavramsal, politik ve performatif nitelikler, toplumsal değişimlerin ve küresel olguların aciliyetini işleyen disiplinlerarası bir yaklaşımla iç içe geçer. Chong’un beden, güçsüzlük, şiddet, kolektivizm, lidersizlik, yas ve benzeri temalar üzerinden yaptığı müdahaleli temsiller izleyiciyi yeni bir incelemeye davet ederken eserlerindeki incelikli, şiirsel ve fakat eleştirel yapı anlam sistemlerine sızar. Isaac Chong Wai (b. 1990) is a participating artist in this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. Also this year, Chong received the Art Prize of the City of Nordhorn 2024, a prize awarded since 1979 to artists who have attracted attention with a fresh and nationally significant body of work. Chong's recent exhibitions include the Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok 2024 and the Biennale Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paolo 2023. His works have been exhibited at prestigious venues including the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the MMCA in Seoul, IFFR in Rotterdam, MOCA in Taipei, and M+ in Hong Kong. His works are represented in renowned collections, including the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, where the works were included in the Museum’s revised permanent exhibition, which opened in 2023; in Germany’s Bundeskunstsammlung; in Kadist, Paris and San Francisco; and in the Burger Collection, Hong Kong. He was awarded the New York Désirée & Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship from the Asian Cultur