Chong Wai - Artist

Art Portfolio

Consciousness & Innateness, 2012
Chong Wai
Photography

Description: The movement of the outstretched arms forms geometries in which the activities of the body explain the conscious deed performed. The geometrical appearances demonstrated by the bilateral act where consciousness interweaves to innateness that the symmetrical balance is presented by human nature.

Seeing Sleeping, 2011Chong WaiVideo Installation 

Seeing Sleeping, 2011
Chong Wai
Video Installation 

Bodily Drawing No.1, 2012
Chong Wai
Video with wall drawing

說明: 我的右手與筆有著很緊密的連繫,這是因為筆常在我右手。我嘗試把自己畫在牆上,尋找右手的限制。

Description:
My right hand is affilated with pencil, it is because pencil is used jointly with my right hand always. Hence, I drew myself on wall by right hand so as to map my body and explore the limitation of using right hand. 

Website: chongwai.tumblr.com
Email: isaac.chongwai@gmail.com

Shining, 2012
Chong Wai

Dimension: 4~6(height) x 300(weight) x 250(length) 

Media: Installation 
Material: Clay figures with snipping of mirror 

Description: Despite the imperfect of mankind, His light makes people shine marvelously. The plentiful small human figures made by clay with snipping of mirror expresses the meaning of shining – we shine because He shines. 

雖然人並不完美,可是衪的光使人閃耀。大量泥作的人形公仔附上鏡子的碎片表 達“照耀”的意思- 我們發光,因祂照耀

Bodily Drawing No.1, 2012
Video with wall drawing

Beholder 觀望者, 2011.
Chong Wai.
Installation, clay.

Description:
“Beholder” shows the way of seeing which is a medium to make viewers become a part of the overlook. Beholder views the scene of the city that connects the scene and the beholder. By the connection, “seeing” draws the beholder into the view that the viewer who is watching the beholder becomes “the scene”.

A Pencil, 2011
Chong Wai
A pencil with pencil shapener  

A pack of Tissue, 2011
Chong Wai
A pack of tissue.


The Written Scene, 2011.
Chong Wai.
Installation, leads on window.
Hong Kong.

Description:
“The Written Scene” is about “the” specific scene constructed by leads. The word “written” is named because of the material of the square frame - lead, which is used to write in most of the time. The leads create a square and let the viewer to see the scene via the frame that provides another sight to interpret the framed world through window.

Email: isaac.chongwai@gmail.com

The Written Scene, 2011.
Chong Wai.
Installation, leads on window.
Hong Kong.

Description:
“The Written Scene” is about “the” specific scene constructed by leads. The word “written” is named because of the material of the square frame - lead, which is used to write in most of the time. The leads create a square and let the viewer to see the scene via the frame that provides another sight to interpret the framed world through window.

Email: isaac.chongwai@gmail.com

Enter Project

One Minute, One Second, One Millisecond, 2011
Chong Wai
Netart

Description: The work reveals the accounting of 60 second in the front page which directs to the real time in Hong Kong, meanwhile, layers are created by different pages to express the notion of time. The experience in the netart indicates a specific moment that viewer is having during browning the website that demonstrates the personal insight to think of the concept of time and to raise a question: how do time relate to user in internet?

An Unknow Artist - Chong Wai Solo Exhibition 2011

Description:

An Unknown Artist, the art exhibition held by Chong Wai, that  explores the existing spaces and objects of gallery focusing on different possibilities of time and space by showing site-specific installations. 9 installation works are exhibited in which some are made during the processing of the exhibition.

Venue:

Gallery, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, 51 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong

An Unknow Artist - Chong Wai Solo Exhibition 2011

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NDHfKIyCRyM

Description:

An Unknown Artist, the art exhibition held by Chong Wai, that  explores the existing spaces and objects of gallery focusing on different possibilities of time and space by showing site-specific installations. 9 installation works are exhibited in which some are made during the processing of the exhibition.

Venue:

Gallery, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, 51 Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Untitled, 2011
Chong Wai
Installation, existing tacks on wall in gallery , black thread, readymade pencil and pencil wall drawing.
4.6 m x 2.2m

Description: The tacks used in this work were left behind by the former exhibition in the gallery. I used black thread to connect all the tacks on the wall with a stable spotlight, meanwhile, I drew the shadow projected by the spotlight. Finally, 3 lines were created which are: the thread, the shadow of the thread and the pencil outline of the shadow.

A Pencil, 2011
Chong Wai
Installation, readymade pencil and pencil wall drawing.
5.7m x 1m x 2.1m