Nicole Wong: Cotton in the Ears, Furball in the Throat at Rossi&Rossi

The map is not the territory. The word is not the object. The symbolic gesture is not the phenomenon. The gaps between reality and our ways of interpreting it are one of the themes in Nicole Wong’s artworks.
As for lenticular prints series But What Happens When Skin Falls? I won’t be narrowing them to pandemics only. I don’t even think it’s literally about obsessive and compulsive hand washing. For me they allude to the rituals and sets of rules that feel we have to do before allowing ourselves to get the connection we want and the comfort we crave. Do these rituals help or prevent the desirable actions to happen? Does the cotton in ears help to prevent auditory overload or is it actually deafening? Because the furball in the throat sounds only suffocating.

Exhibition period: 4.02—3.03
Gallery address: 11/F, M Place, Wong Chuk Hang