CHAN WING NGA

In 2013, her work was presented in art fairs and included in Things Happen for a Reason, a group show co-presented by Mur Nomade and Koru Contemporary Art in Hong Kong.

In Chan Wing Nga's work, the research and process are as important as the final output. She is particularly interested in gender issues. Although her work explores her Chinese roots, it aims at raising universal questions.

Intimates 密友 is her most recent body of works. It is a series of photographic portraits exploring the burdens that weight on the female Chinese identity. Chan Wing Nga’s approach is more psychological than aesthetic, and she has chosen to work with hair because she is interested in the emotional charge of the material. Worn long by women, hair is the perfect example of the weight of femininity transmitted generation after generation. Moreover Intimates explores the relationships between women, for solidarity between women has always been a pillar of the Chinese culture. For the Intimates series, Chan Wing Nga also studied nüshu, an ancient Chinese script used exclusively and secretly by women, and learned it herself.

Continuing to explore the place of women in the Chinese society, Chan Wing Nga went recently to Yunnan, in the South-west of China, to study the Mosuo ethnic group, a minority organised in a matriarchal society. In her forthcoming works, Chan Wing Nga’s will go on weaving links between the past and present.