{"id":21970,"date":"2023-08-24T23:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=21970"},"modified":"2023-12-30T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T02:09:46","slug":"yin-yin-wong-letters-from-lalalam-9-september-7-october-2023-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/yin-yin-wong-letters-from-lalalam-9-september-7-october-2023-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Yin Yin Wong &#8211; Letters From Lalalam | 9 September &#8211; 13 October 2023 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-2ckkt4i-8adfde5f33cee9bfd7e5897e51a6b117 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-21970'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-25aunle-4786cf40b1d4a7197faa001f04ba32c4 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1kzun1u-ff51cff110062ef24059b40097247693\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-1kzun1u-ff51cff110062ef24059b40097247693{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-1kzun1u-ff51cff110062ef24059b40097247693 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/yin-yin-wong-letters-from-lalalam-9-september-13-october-2023-works\/\">works<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/yin-yin-wong-letters-from-lalalam-9-september-7-october-2023-press-release\/\">PRESS RELEASE<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/yin-yin-wong-letters-from-lalalam-9-september-13-october-2023-insitu\/\">INSITU<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/CV_YYW_2023_ENG_WLG.pdf\">CV<\/a> |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/YYW-E-Booklet-For-Devices.pdf\">E-BOOKLET<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/yin-yin-wong-letters-from-lalalam-9-september-13-october-2023-news\/\">NEWS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class='flex_column av-4leosy-ad9aeb346414cbd84a26c85d7ff75206 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div column-top-margin'   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'open sans thin'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px; letter-spacing: 1px;\">Letters From Lalalam<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c<em>You can\u2019t pick a lotus flower when you see them in the wild. Lotuses grow near quicksand\u2013 if you pick it you could get stuck and drown if no one rescues you.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Jenny Tong, Lotus Flowers (2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wei-Ling Gallery presents \u2018<em>Letters from Lalalam&#8217;<\/em>, marking the first Malaysian solo exhibition by multi-disciplinary Dutch-Chinese-Malaysian artist, Yin Yin Wong. With \u2018Letters from Lalalam\u2019, Wong invites us to have a closer look at the lives and everyday realities supporting the Asian service industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1977, Wong\u2019s parents emigrated from Malaysia to The Netherlands in search of a better life. Here they opened their own restaurant named \u2018Choong Kee [\u677e \u8bb0]\u2019, named after Wong\u2019s father, and served local diners for over ten years. Wong\u2019s mother works in the service industry to this day, while Wong\u2019s father became estranged after the closing of the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Growing up in the family establishment, Wong witnessed up close the long hours and repetitive labour performed by their parents and the toll it took on their bodies, a fate that remains largely unseen and under-recognised in the social fabric of Dutch society. Through their practice they look to explore themes of marginalisation experienced in the South-East Asian diaspora, which manifests in public space predominantly through services catering to the body in the West (in the form of restaurants, massage parlours, sex work, nail salons etc.) They question the meaning of commodifying one\u2019s own culture for the purpose of consumption by others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The title of the exhibition, \u2018<em>Letters from Lalalam<\/em>\u2019, refers to the colloquial pronunciation of \u2018Rotterdam\u2019 by the Chinese diaspora in the Netherlands. Rotterdam, the city where Wong is based in, is home to the biggest population of East and South-East Asian immigrants in the Netherlands. In their new sculpture series, Wong touches on the plight of these immigrants through the visual vernacular of shop fronts and their eclectic use of language. Together with other recent works, the artist invites us to engage with the intimate lives that support the economic and cultural landscape of the Netherlands while continually navigating the margins of their own diverging set of cultural and social identities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Yin Yin Wong, who uses \u2018they\/them\u2019 pronouns, identifies as non-binary, which is a term used to describe gender identities that are not solely male nor female. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This exhibition is generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Creative Industries Fund NL and Bekker-la Bastide-Fonds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21971\" src=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART-286x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART-286x300.png 286w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART-983x1030.png 983w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART-768x805.png 768w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART-1466x1536.png 1466w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART-1432x1500.png 1432w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART-673x705.png 673w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/MFO_LOGO_EN_CMYK_ZWART.png 1488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21972\" src=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK-1030x638.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK-1500x928.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK-705x436.jpg 705w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/SCI_Woordbeeld_EN_3_regels_CMYK.jpg 1622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21973\" src=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo_Bekker-la-Bastide-Fonds_2020_1-300x48.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo_Bekker-la-Bastide-Fonds_2020_1-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo_Bekker-la-Bastide-Fonds_2020_1-1030x165.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo_Bekker-la-Bastide-Fonds_2020_1-768x123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo_Bekker-la-Bastide-Fonds_2020_1-705x113.jpg 705w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo_Bekker-la-Bastide-Fonds_2020_1-1210x200.jpg 1210w, https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Logo_Bekker-la-Bastide-Fonds_2020_1.jpg 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>YIN YIN WONG (B.1988, NL) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yin Yin Wong (B.1988, NL) is a multidisciplinary artist working across a range of media including film, sculpture, drawing and site-specific installation. Through an auto-ethnographic lens they explore and question the dominant frameworks that govern the various marginalised identities and cultures they embody. Previously as a graphic designer and art director they worked around the notion of democratising access to visual culture through the publishing of artist books and the curation of exhibitions and public programmes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently they are researching possible bridges between their modernist graphic design education and their Chinese-Malaysian diasporic upbringing. By focusing on themself as a site where different legacies and languages converge and complicate each other, Wong looks for a common ground that speaks cross-culturally. Recently Yin Yin&#8217;s work has been presented at A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam; Framer Framed, Amsterdam; Natasha\u2013 Singapore Biennale \u201922 and Venice Biennale \u201922.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8216;Letters From Lalalam&#8217;<\/em> is featured at Wei-Ling Gallery from 9 September &#8211; 13 October 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wei-Ling Gallery is located at No 8, Jalan Scott, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Admission hours are Tuesday \u2013 Friday 10am \u2013 6pm, Saturday 10am \u2013 5pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Exhibition is open by appointment only. For appointments and further assistance, please contact +60322601106 or e-mail siewboon@weiling-gallery.com<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-vro0vm-1974dbff30448437766540e9eb9b1e6e\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-vro0vm-1974dbff30448437766540e9eb9b1e6e{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-vro0vm-1974dbff30448437766540e9eb9b1e6e hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"works | PRESS RELEASE | INSITU | CV |&nbsp;E-BOOKLET | NEWS Letters From Lalalam \u201cYou can\u2019t pick a lotus flower when you see them in the wild. 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