Adrian Wong is a Vancouver-born artist and up to date graduate of the Mixed Diploma BA + BFA program at Tufts College. Born to Cantonese mother and father and raised in Hong Kong, his image-based apply explores seen and invisible infrastructures, from networks that allow visibility to those who evade detection or function unnoticed.
In his sequence Carton, Wong makes use of the egg as a lens by way of which to look at methods of optimization and standardization. “I’m pondering quite a bit about optimization and infrastructure, and the egg is in some ways an ideal metaphor for modern notions of perfection,” he explains. “Think about the methods through which chickens are cultivated in sterile environments—eggs are sorted in order that solely completely oval ones make it into the carton. Inversely, the infrastructure of the carton itself must be fairly bodily exact in order that eggs don’t break underneath the stress of transportation. So on this sense, I’m fascinated with the methods of ‘housing’ fragility.”
Because the challenge developed, Wong arrived at a extra private connection. “I had fully ignored the truth that maybe these themes arose out of my very own origins as a baby of in vitro fertilization, equally a means of optimization, precision, and threat—therein lies one thing unusually elegant concerning the finish product.”
