Looking Through The Surface is the first solo show by Wing Tung So in Hong Kong. It features new paintings which blend perspective and theatricality through enigmatic illusory forms.

Expanding on her fascination with the process of intensely composed digital collage and its metamorphosis to painting, Wing explores the motif of the architectural window in her works. A rhetoric yet in its tangible manifestation, it is about surfaces found in frames and the transformative nature of a surface: how a two-dimensional surface imitates the qualities of a three-dimensional space. Disassembling and reconstructing fragments into meticulous, vibrant compositions, her canvases are ablaze with colour – bursts of exuberant fuchsia, lemon yellow, blue, violet to hues of periwinkle dance across, engulfing the edges.

Wing’s source material stems from her immediate surroundings and found imagery – cropping, reforming, and compressing – until mere traces of architectural remnants remain. Controlled, gestural mark making has also taken shape on her expanses, instinctively extracted from the post-production processes of her digital renderings. At their core, Wing’s paintings embrace the aesthetic and atmospheric qualities of paint, the dramatic saturation, and celebrate the particularities of painting and digital collage. In the context of medium specificity and the post-medium condition, she recognises their autonomies, yet the moment the two forms become inextricable is ever so alluring: the flatness of paints and the glimmering sheen of screens.

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