Min Wong is a sculpture and installation artist who investigates reconstructed counterculture accoutrements from the 1960’s and 1970’s as a simulacrum for utopian concerns. These ‘movements’ of the 60s and 70s produced significant social changes, and the New Age went on to be packaged and marketed in the 1980s, and has been romanticised into self-help strategies since then, in one form or another. Today it seems that our search for identity been hijacked by the spectacle and in turn part of our material culture.
Her installations aim to identify new systems of interrelation with the present and appropriations of faux spirituality within the critique of contemporary life. Using the studio as a faux Bikram yoga room, her sculptures and installations consider the ‘kitsch mystical experience’ and become an interplay between visionary imagination, cultural invention and future utopias. Min has participated in international residencies in China, Spain and Los Angeles and recently exhibited in Hatched, Pica, Mars Gallery, Melbourne and Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide.
