until Sunday October 03 2021

New Museum of Contemporary Art
T : +1 (212) 219 1222
235 Bowery
10002 New York
United States

https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/wong-ping-your-silent-neighbor

“Wong Ping: Your Silent Neighbor,” the first American survey exhibition of work by the artist, will debut a new video work by the artist produced in Hong Kong and the United States, along with new sculptural works created especially for the exhibition. Before his colorful and sometimes disturbing stories of life in Hong Kong received mainstream attention from the art world, the artist worked in television broadcasting and commercial animation. Although his videos may at first recall children’s cartoons, Wong’s work emerges from his own written stories and journals, revealing the aspirations and anxieties of everyday residents of Hong Kong through surreal narratives and a bizarre cast of anthropomorphic characters.

This exhibition will bring together a selection of new and recent work by Wong from across his experimental oeuvre, including Jungle of Desire (2015), a video that tells the story of a homemaker turned sex worker whose exchanges with her police-officer client are voyeuristically observed by her husband. The exhibition will also include Wong Ping’s Fables 2 (2019), the second of Wong’s takes on traditional fairy tales in which a variety of creatures learn valuable lessons about living in the complex sociopolitical landscape of contemporary Hong Kong.

Wong Ping (b. 1984, Hong Kong) lives and works in Hong Kong, and founded the Wong Ping Animation Lab in 2014.