Wong Ping: Between Desire and Isolation

Director: Wong Ping

2022 / 66min / DCP

Metrograph throws a spotlight on the experimental moving-image based works of Hong Kong-based renegade artist Wong, who since founding his Wong Ping Animation Lab in 2014 has established a sui generis signature style that encompasses vibrant neon palettes; crude, flat, pseudo-corporate visual language and subject matter; and paradoxically sophisticated voiceover tracks that tackle sex, politics, social media self-absorption, and perverse personal musings. Presented in the theater, At Home, and as an installation in the Metrograph Lobby, our month-long Artist Focus on Wong includes his vulgar Aesop-inspired Fables series, united by a savage, often raunchy sense of satirical humor and surprising doses of morally serious social criticism; his perverse protest piece The Modern Way to Shower, released at the peak of Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement protests; and other wild and wooly works from an artist just mad enough to offer a lucid commentary on the times in which we live.

Screenings will include a special video introduction from artist Wong Ping