Weng Io Wong's Chart of the Inner Landscape I: The Fold, the Hinge and the Labyrinth (2025) is on view at Macao Museum of Art, as part of the group exhibition Hey, what brings you here? at the Macao International Art Biennale 2025.
The Main Exhibition concerns a profound question: “Hey, what brings you here?” This seemingly simple query delves into the complexities of our real lives, serving as a gateway to exploring Macao’s "local" history, memory, and the intricacies of the contemporary global situation. It also sparks the ultimate iterative question of “Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?”, inviting visitors on a journey of self-discovery.
This Main Exhibition features 46 artists from thirteen countries, including China (encompassing Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan), South Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, Iran, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and the United States. The section showcases 80 pieces (sets) of mixed-media work, ranging from paintings, sculptures, installations, video and photography to artificial intelligence.
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The work employs the Taoist ‘Chart of the Inner Landscape’ as a metaphor, translating the body’s meridians into the spiritual pathways of a city to explore the fluid states of ‘intermediate, transitional, migratory’ existence. Five sculptures correspond to bodily senses, bridging Macau’s historical stratifications with contemporary survival: ‘Origin‘ & ‘Ecstasy‘ – Eye, Ear: Papier-mâché consists of Chinese and Portuguese newspapers, mixed media and rebar piercing like neural synapses reveals the dual erosion of colonial memory’s material sedimentation and modernity’s cacophony. ‘Light of Pli‘ – Mouth: A hybrid structure of secondhand vessels and childhood candies encases the cloying sweetness and corrosion of vernacular language, reassembling collective nostalgia through everyday objects.
Text and images courtesy of the artist and Art Macao.
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https://www.artmacao.mo/2025/en/exhibitionDetail/125