First published on 4 January 2023
Jade Ching-yuk Ng: GUSH
Jade Ching-yuk Ng: GUSH
GUSH stems from Jade Ching-yuk 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.
© Jade Ching-yuk Ng and Tang Contemporary Art.
Production: Doris Leung, Hazel Ding, Charlotte Lin.
