Artist field note

Matthew Wong

A short career; a remarkably complete pictorial world.

The Realm of Appearances by Matthew Wong
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The Realm of Appearances

2018

A field of colour and pattern feels seductive before it feels unsettled. Wong makes landscape behave like an inner state.

The five in one idea

Wong used landscape less as a record of place than as an emotional construction. Beauty and loneliness can occupy the same path.