Created By
Hong Wai
Ink and color on Xuan paper on wood
Curator
Artbridger Curator
In Hong Wai's Alternative Landscape Series - Fragrant Mountains I, the artist skillfully subverts traditional Chinese landscape motifs, infusing them with a provocative and contemporary twist. By reimagining the sacred mountains as voluptuous, undulating forms reminiscent of feminine curves and delicate lingerie, Wai challenges viewers to reconsider the boundaries between nature, spirituality, and sensuality. This striking juxtaposition of ancient symbolism with modern aesthetics invites us to contemplate the evolving nature of cultural identity and the fluidity of artistic expression in a rapidly changing world.
In the painting by 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
33 x 33 cm | 13 x 13 in
50 x 50 cm
2024
