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Gold Present
22" x 18" x 18"
balsa wood and paper
2007
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Artist
Statement
I make drawings, prints, paper cuts, sculptures and installations. Recurring themes include social skepticism, sarcasm, failure, the inadequacy of daily life, language and humor. More recent projects explore personal transformation, happiness and good attitudes. For example, I make sculptures of (absent) presents to reference value and the possibility of material objects conveying intangible emotions. In a series of works on paper, I propose inventions for personal improvement and remedying minor inconveniences. My language-based works present quotidian texts—such as to-do lists, grocery lists, and imagined dialogues—as illegible masses, suggesting anxiety and failure. My work is characterized by my ambivalence towards optimism and pessimism. Though I would like to be an optimist, I am a resolute realist. For me, pessimism is rooted in “shittiness”—quotidian tribulations in corporeal reality. Optimism, on the other hand, suggests transcendence. I see an analogous paradox in art: conceptual art must be materialized (but materials are often mundane and ubiquitous, like photocopies or common art supplies), and yet art is still expected, quite optimistically, to convey the ineffable, to illuminate the unknowable. I don’t expect—but still aspire towards—redemption through the act of creating art.
Contact
info@ChristineWongYap.com
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