Christine Wong Yap

How Do You Keep Your Heart Open? (For Susan)

€500

Edition of 2528.3 (H) × 85.0 (W) cm

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With community and care running throughout her practice, Christine Wong Yap works towards a universal homecoming for all who encounter her art.

How Do You Keep Your Heart Open? (For Susan) was created as a tribute to the life and legacy of the artist’s late friend Susan O’Malley, the work — realised as a pencil drawing with the telltale marks of a preparatory sketch — intentionally retains a sense of being in progress, and of continual exploration.

This work is launching as part of a wider collaboration between Avant Arte and artist-run collective For Freedoms.

Medium

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm paper, hand-embellished with fine graphite powder and spot-colour screenprint layers.

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Individually signed, dated and numbered.

Release date

September 29, 2021

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Christine Wong Yap looking towards the camera in her studio

Christine Wong Yap1 collaborationChristine Wong Yap weaves visual art with social practice, approaching her work as a tool to foster community and explore themes of wellbeing and belonging. Her site-specific works - often facilitated through community workshops and exhibited in ‘non-art’ public spaces - combine text with comics, diagrammatic drawing and textile elements. In zines and publications, she collects stories from across the globe to create a symbolic document for collective memory. Always invested in the stories that inform her artworks, she says: “Why not make the backstory - the usually-unseen where, who and how - as visible and present as the what?” Through poetic records of human experience realised in multiple artistic forms, she demonstrates the ways in which communal creativity can contribute to both individual and societal resilience.

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