Good Will Hunting / Painter Tom Who Peeps on Glitch
A Duo Exhibition by WEN gum gum ＆ NING,FU
A Duo Exhibition by WEN gum gum ＆ NING,FU
DATES｜May. 21, 2022 - June. 18, 2022
OPENING｜May. 21
The artist will be present.
OPENING｜May. 21
The artist will be present.
STATEMENT
The exhibition uses painting and image collage to capture a contradictory sensibility that is constantly superimposed and concentrated on the eyes, presenting it in seemingly unrelated yet subtly disturbing images. Susan Sontag, in Notes on Camp, describes Camp as a specific mode of complex artistic sense, citing several events that are recognized as standard Camp, one of which is "watching a non-pornographic movie without a female companion." The solitary state is used to separate art and erotism, slipping between a borderline that borders on ludicrous, playful propriety and a mockery of seriousness. If the invention of breakfast cereal can curb teenage masturbation, and a person walking into an art gallery can be lightly filled with intelligence, the censorship of social media that automatically identifies images of nipples has made the essence of barbarism hypocritical.
Wen gum gum uses the image as a tool for self-introspection and outlets, interweaving inner spirituality, the world, and the internet, with absurdity as an inevitable adornment to the process of making the work. She is concerned with the way in which mass media portrays characters, particularly in relation to the narrowing of gender roles.
The figures in gum’s paintings are not real people – she creates them from found images and her own imagination. Both familiar and mysterious, they invite viewers to project their own interpretations, and raise important questions of identity and representation.
"Good Will Hunting", WEN gum gum Solo Exhibition
Being the title of this exhibition, I would parse Glitch-Peeping Painter Tom (or Painter Tom who Peeps on Glitch) into three components: Tom, Painter, and Glitch. Tom, derived from the English idiom “peeping Tom” meaning a voyeur, implies my motivation and therefore results in the choice of images on social media. Glitch describes the condition of these images. Lastly, the painter. How a contemporary painter responds to and, as well as in hand movement, being with the making of images. In other words, I may be more of someone who admires others’ lives. Instead of creating my version, I stand timidly, watching their life displayed. Eventually, in response to the “discouragement”, I felt while watching these images, I invaded these experiences with the body that paints and its laceration, reproduction, and reassembly.
"Painter Tom Who Peeps on Glitch", NING,FU Solo Exhibition
Wen gum gum uses the image as a tool for self-introspection and outlets, interweaving inner spirituality, the world, and the internet, with absurdity as an inevitable adornment to the process of making the work. She is concerned with the way in which mass media portrays characters, particularly in relation to the narrowing of gender roles.
The figures in gum’s paintings are not real people – she creates them from found images and her own imagination. Both familiar and mysterious, they invite viewers to project their own interpretations, and raise important questions of identity and representation.
"Good Will Hunting", WEN gum gum Solo Exhibition
Being the title of this exhibition, I would parse Glitch-Peeping Painter Tom (or Painter Tom who Peeps on Glitch) into three components: Tom, Painter, and Glitch. Tom, derived from the English idiom “peeping Tom” meaning a voyeur, implies my motivation and therefore results in the choice of images on social media. Glitch describes the condition of these images. Lastly, the painter. How a contemporary painter responds to and, as well as in hand movement, being with the making of images. In other words, I may be more of someone who admires others’ lives. Instead of creating my version, I stand timidly, watching their life displayed. Eventually, in response to the “discouragement”, I felt while watching these images, I invaded these experiences with the body that paints and its laceration, reproduction, and reassembly.
"Painter Tom Who Peeps on Glitch", NING,FU Solo Exhibition