Created By
Hong Wai
Ink and color on silver Xuan paper on wood
Curator
Artbridger Curator
In Hong Wai's Alternative Landscape Series - Fragrant Mountains, the artist masterfully disrupts conventional perceptions of traditional Chinese landscapes by infusing them with provocative and subversive imagery. Through the juxtaposition of the serene beauty of mountains and water with the overt sensuality of voluptuous bodies and intimate undergarments, Wai challenges viewers to reconsider the boundaries of cultural symbolism and artistic expression. This series invites contemplation on the intersection of nature, femininity, and eroticism, offering a thought-provoking exploration of the complexities inherent in the representation of identity and tradition in contemporary art.
In the paintings by Chinese artist Hong Wai, the human body and the traditional landscape are simultaneously transformed by the artist’s personal deconstruction. Especially the Alternative Landscape series, there the landscape with mountain and water, the highest spiritual and moral metaphor in Chinese painting, is secretly deconstructed by the artist into the voluptuous bodies. While the traditional Chinese geomancy sees the energy forces in the chains of mountains as an embodiment of dragon, Hong Wai depicts this cosmic body as an undulating body of femininity, and the most sensuous women’s underwear.
Created By
Hong Wai
Framed
95 x 105 cm | 37 x 41 in
2025
