Yeung Tong Lung’s work Ching Lin Terrace (2022) and 360°+ (2021–23) will be on view in The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Australia.
“Innovative portraits of everyday life in Hong Kong by senior painter Yeung Tong Lung, deploying unusual perspectives with an affectionate eye for detail. The paintings range from intimate vignettes to an epic 20-metre, multi-panel panoramic view of the city.” – The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
360°+ (2021–23) is an ambitious 18-panel painting based on views from Yeung’s studio in Kennedy Town, at the western end of Hong Kong Island. It centres on four continuous panoramas joined in a long, scroll-like format, along with 14 vignettes of an unusually quiet city. Glimpses of face masks are reminders that the work was made largely during periods of the COVID-19 lockdown pandemic. Yet its haunting qualities are softened by sights like pigeons at roost, a rooftop garden, a pandemic-era balcony haircut and two young people taking in a sunset moments of genuine humanity and levity.
Venue: Queensland Art Gallery, Stanley Place, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia