Jade Ching-Yuk Ng: GUSH

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Tang Contemporary Art is excited to announce the new solo exhibition of our represented young Hong Kong artist Jade Ching-Yuk Ng, titled GUSH. As Ng’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, the show will display 18 of her latest works, ranging from oil paintings to wooden engravings.

The title GUSH originates from Ng’s imagination about the different states of water. In fact, the Chinese radical “氵”, which represents water in Chinese character, can form numerous, variable semantic connotations of water – tears, bodily excretions, water, clouds, rain – and thus constituting the “fluid” relationships between human and nature.

GUSH, as a process reminiscent of those seen in fountains and geysers, embody this intense expression of relationships and emotions, emerging from the depths and gushing out of the surface. Ng endeavours to use oil paintings and wood engravings as a mediator to analyse both the greater universe and human sentiments, from within and without. GUSH is a phenomenon; an open emotion, a formless body – it is constantly and freely growing, flowing.

By reinterpreting traditional forms of symbolism, her work creates a new, ambiguous and obscure fiction. Ng’s work craves the attention of our loneliness, intimacy and emptiness in today’s hyper-realistic world. Her theatrical work is a constant conversation between her inner self and the others to observe the fine edge of collision in reality and imagination.

To Ng, the agency of framing also becomes a gesture of embracing, defining actual, and pictorial surrealistic space. The essence of modernist architecture influences how she constructs and adds odds to her composition in the picture.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Currently lives and works in London, Jade Ching-Yuk Ng's (b.1992, Hong Kong, China) different forms of painting and relief sculpture often revolve around human anatomy, body puzzles, personal travel experience, classical myth, alchemy, and religious rituals as references. She attempts to deconstruct their symbolism by attaching her own interpretation, and her symbols seem to depart from their literal connotations into obscure and ambiguous fiction.

Ng obtained her BA at Slade School of Fine Art in 2016 and MA at Royal College of Art in 2018. She is a recipient of Cass Art Painting Prize in 2016 and Travers Smith Art Award in 2018. She was awarded the Abbey Major Painting Scholarship by the British School at Rome in 2018. Her work was commented on and published by art historians Katy Hessel and Kate Mothes respectively. She worked at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 2014. Her work has exhibited internationally, such as Arusha Gallery (London; Edinburgh, UK), Matt’s Gallery (London, UK), San Mei Gallery (London, UK), Cornucopia Gallery (London, UK), Whitechapel 46 (London, UK), Siegfried Contemporary (London, UK), Assembly Point (London, UK), Horse Hospital (London, UK), CGP Gallery (London, UK), Canal Mills Armley (Leeds, UK), Video Pub (Jerusalem, Israel), Academia di Romania a Roma (Rome, Italy) . Part of her work has been collected by Penguin Random House.