672 lines in silver, 2019
Isaac Chong Wai
Silver leaf and acrylic on canvas
200 x 150 x 3cm
308 lines in blue, 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 120cm
42 lines in silver, 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Silver leaf and acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
44 lines in aluminium, 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Aluminium and acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
46 lines in silver, 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Silver leaf and acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
48 lines in silver, 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Aluminium and acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
50 lines in silver, 2018
Isaac Chong Wai
Silver leaf and acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
Isaac Chong Wai’s paintings with their sky blue backgrounds offer a silver lining to the idea of incarceration. The malfunction of a missing part of the fence here collides with an ambiguous abstraction. Both in political or metaphorical senses, these works tackle the inevitable ways in which representations evolve, retrograde and interweave. The lines, which appear intact, in reality, barely touch each other: the concept of a bordering fence remains fragile, impotent and even permeable.