WAI IP


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selected artworks

quiet containment 
thisspaceintentionallyblank
timeless time
documented awareness with the lost one
Identity of an artwork
to ashes from ashes
Domestic Singularity
KARMA CYCLE
meditation/ walk/ lottery centre
FOREVER X CHANGE 永續找換店
Qingdao Lotus Pond
Daily Routine : Gymnastic Exercise
Pepper
3rd September, 2015
The Coming Society

                                                                                                                                                                                  

Wai Ip  (they/them) is a Hong Kong conceptual/performance artist currently based in London, whose work examines the impermanent nature of human experience.   As a migrant, they navigates the intricate ontological terrain that is sculpted by the relentless forces of vicinity performing upon us, including geographic dislocation, fluctuating political scenarios, and the swift pace of technological progress. Their artwork not only provokes deep introspection but also acts as a mirror reflecting the myriad challenges and necessary adaptations faced by the identity of artist in our rapidly transforming society. 

Wai’s artwork has been exhibited at galleries and art shows in New York, Hong Kong, Canada, France and across South East Asia. They is currently enrolled in the first year of MFA fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London.


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12.2016Daily Routine : Gymnastic Execrise

single-channel video 9’35/ live performance documented by camera


This is a piece about the exploration of limitation. Limitation can be the frame of the canvas. Limitation can also be a mindset. Essentially, limitation can only exist in your own mind.  This is a respond to the performance of Bruce Naumam in Dance and exercise on perimeter of a square in this piece, the artist Intends to experience limitation in an intimate way. In this experimental piece conducted live at Para Site in Hong Kong, the artist wears a skin tight body suit while doing his daily gym routine. They stretches, they lifts, they pulls wearing this second skin. They struggles to complete, yet you can’t really see how much they sweats underneath the body suit.  The body suit is the physical manifestation of detachment. This layer of second skin provides you with a full body experience of isolation from the outside.