Falling Carefully
The sculpture replicates the artist's body, capturing a collective moment in a suspended fall.
Isaac Chong Wai presents a body of work including sculpture, video, drawings and ready-made objects. In Falling Carefully, the action of falling is frozen volatility, duplicating the artist’s body into different positions during a fall. Each position supports other positions within a structure that allows the sculptures to stay intact. Chong attempts to radically transform the feeling of powerlessness during a fall – a condition most of us believe we cannot escape the inevitability and impossibility – into an imaginary, collective and supportive foundation.
Falling Carefully, 2020
Isaac Chong Wai
Silicon, polylactide, wood, resin,fabric, shoes, human hair ca. 70 x 100 x 100cm
Courtesy of Asia Society, Blindspot Gallery and Zilberman
Photo credits:
Photo 1 and 2: Asia Society, photos by South Ho
Photo 3: Zilberman, photos by Kayhan Kaygusuz