Wang Tuo’s The Second Interrogation (2023), 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.
Wang Tuo’s The Second Interrogation (2023) is a video installation in two parts that hinges on interpretations of performances that took place during the era-defining 1989 exhibition ‘China/Avant-Garde’ at the National Art Museum of China. The work expresses Wang’s notion of ‘pan-Shamanism’ through the invocation of suppressed forces beneath the surface of the earth and historical ruptures that provide glimpses of other dimensions. Equal parts psychological thriller, dance piece and theoretical treatise, The Second Interrogation is a spectacularly staged consideration of the ethics of art and the dynamics of history.
Yeung Tong Lung’s 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
Image: Installation view of Yeung tong lung’s 360°+, 2021-23, Oil on canvas. Photo by Nicholas Umek