Tang Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the opening of “GUSH,” a solo exhibition by Hong Kong artist Jade Ching-yuk Ng (b. 1992) on December 15 in Hong Kong space. This is Ng’s first solo show with Tang Contemporary Art, featuring her recent paintings and woodcut prints.

“GUSH” stems from Ng’s belief that water is the source of life. The title of the show brings to mind the various forms of water: tears, bodily fluids, bodies of water, clouds, and rain. Water is infinitely changeable, existing within all things as an indispensable part of bodies and nature, but water’s relationship with human bodies and natural things is also quite fluid. “GUSH” evokes a geyser, a thermal spring, or a vital energy secretly stored until it suddenly bursts forth. It also conjures the outpouring of human emotion from the depths of the soul. Through narrative depictions of figures, Ng controls a profusion of myths, histories, and realities, seeing cosmological relationships and human emotional layers from the inside out. “GUSH” is a phenomenon, an open emotion, an organ-less body; it finds freedom in constant generation and flow.

Ng’s paintings are a distillation of Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism; primitive and contemporary visual beauty overflow onto her canvases. She focuses on the body, seeking out ideal human emotions, the entanglements and collisions between figures, and the multi-dimensional and complex perceptual experience of intimacy and estrangement. In this way, she opens up a humorous, contradictory, passionate, and subtle mode of artistic expression. The friction between reality and fantasy evokes an intoxicating development of the self, or a way to handle a disjunction, a differentiated other. It could be self-destructive, but it also implies the possibility of redemption. Interactions between the figures serve as a kind of psychological and intellectual training that guides our way of looking and experiencing the paintings.

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