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Wong Wai Yin 黃慧妍
Tribute to Inside Looking Out — For the male artists along my way 向展覽「從內至外」致敬—給沿途的男性藝術家
2008
Wong Wai Yin, a Hong Kong–based interdisciplinary artist, created Tribute to the Inside Looking Out: For the male artists along my way, in 2008. The video is a response to an experience Wong had one year earlier while visiting Inside Looking Out, an exhibition at Osage Gallery in Beijing. The six male artists shown there were Wong’s friends from art school. While spending time with them on the trip, Wong was introduced only as a girlfriend, not as an artist herself.
The black-and-white video presents a sequence of each of the six artists from the exhibition standing silent and alone against a white background, framed from the chest up. After a moment, Wong launches a stool from off-screen that strikes each one on the head. The men’s reactions—pained, bemused, stoic—suggest they are knowing participants in her blunt, comic intervention. An all-male version of the famous Cantonese pop song ‘Fragile Woman’ by Faye Wong plays over the rolling credits.
Wong’s work often comments directly on the art world, particularly in her native city of Hong Kong. Although she has described Tribute as the only time she has considered feminism in her work, the video is a natural fit within this wider critique.
The black-and-white video presents a sequence of each of the six artists from the exhibition standing silent and alone against a white background, framed from the chest up. After a moment, Wong launches a stool from off-screen that strikes each one on the head. The men’s reactions—pained, bemused, stoic—suggest they are knowing participants in her blunt, comic intervention. An all-male version of the famous Cantonese pop song ‘Fragile Woman’ by Faye Wong plays over the rolling credits.
Wong’s work often comments directly on the art world, particularly in her native city of Hong Kong. Although she has described Tribute as the only time she has considered feminism in her work, the video is a natural fit within this wider critique.
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