Ming Wong:
Art Must Be Beautiful

Duration: 2017. February 5 – March 30
Venue: 3F, CREATER SPACE, No.888 Huashan Road, Shanghai

Content:
Ming Wong was invited to a debate organised by Intelligence Squared, to debate if “Art Must Be Beautiful” at the Hong Kong Art Fair. The debate motion itself is derived from one of Marina Abramovic’s key works “Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful” (1975), which challenges the notion of beauty, the limits of the body and the possibilities of the mind.

Without informing anybody beforehand, Ming turned up at the debate as the character played by Maggie Cheung in Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love – a beautiful art object and a sex symbol of Hong Kong – and proceeded to deconstruct his alter ego…

At the mean time, we are presenting other works on the Table, including other video works which he remade and played, such as In the Mood for Love, Chongking Express, etc. To match the theme “identity”, we are also presenting the 6th issue of LEAP featuring Ming Wong, giving audience a more holistic idea about queer, identity, and Ming Wong.