SC Gallery is delighted to present Wong Shun Yu “Bulliform Maternity”, an exhibition showcasing 19 artworks from the artist.

In Wong’s previous exhibition, he explore Hong Kong through a macro historical lens, where his personal experiences are remain understated. This time, inspired by “Dream of the Red Mansion”, Wong reflects on how migration in intertwining personal fate with with larger environmental forces. He shifted to on a more intimate, personal narrative and inspect the changing relationships between people and places in the process of family migration from his own experience. For him, the notion of “place” becomes less a physical location and more of an abstract concept, a spiritual landscape. His family's migration story is intrinsically linked to women—from his grandmother to his mother, aside from himself.

In Chapter 59 of Dream of the Red Mansion, the metaphor of “pearls and fish eyes” is used to describe young girls and their mothers. Pearls are often associated with women in both Eastern and Western mythology, appears as a symbol of purity, sacredness, and beauty. Wong recalls his grandmother speaking of the memories of arriving in Hong Kong from Shanghai and how she see herself as a clam carrying few smaller clams, as well as describing his mother’s relationship with Hong Kong with a line from the Cantonese opera, “A Lin sister dropped from the sky.”

Opening reception: 19/10/2024 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Gallery address: 1902, Sungib Industrial Centre, 53 Wong Chuk Hang Rd