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Yuh-Shioh Wong's installation at Cherry and Martin, entitled The
Marsupial Project, takes its cues from the marsupial pouch: a space
that is both an 'inside' and an 'outside.' Wong's exhibition makes an
analogy between pouches and other objects--like books--whose pages and
flaps not only open and close, but also serve as places for the
individual to inhabit.
Roberta Smith has suggested that Yuh-Shioh Wong's polymorphous
installations "revisit Cubism and Surrealism at once." Color, sense and
touch is communicated in Wong's work through a range of materials
including paper mache and string, concrete, mirrors, seeds and
Styrofoam. Formal concerns and a sense of the uncanny play an equal
role, directing the viewer towards disassociative narratives.
Yuh-Shioh Wong's exhibition at Cherry and Martin will consist of
several floor-based and wall-mounted elements that use improvisation
and visual puns as a basis for meditation on life, objecthood and the
nature of viewership. The artist reminds us that the installation is a
living landscape--one that is animated by the way we look at its
geography and its topological form.
Yuh-Shioh Wong's work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Foxy
Production in New York in September 2007. Recent exhibitions include
Pia Maria Martin, Haeri Yoo, Yuh-Shioh Wong at Thomas Erben Gallery
(New York); FAUNA://hybrid at Charim Gallery (Vienna); and Can
Buildings Curate at The Storefront for Art and Architecture (New
York). She received a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from
Harvard and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College.
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