Ping is a multidisciplinary Malaysian artist who works primarily with sculpture, painting, and new media. Drawing upon symbolism and subtle humour, she examines the themes of thoughts,expectations, and other hidden intangibles that create the contours of our subjective experiences. Her artistic practice often involves finding ways to translate the abstract into physical, recognizable forms.

“Dog Days is about the black dog as a metaphor for depression. I have chosen to depict instances of peculiar canine behaviour that I have observed in my own dog to explore what “strangeness” means. Filtered through the lens of human expectation, the strangeness of a dog may simply point to the parts of its existence that have been lost in translation. This is perhaps true of the experience of depression as well – strangeness, as taken to mean unexpected, rather than unnatural or abnormal.”

Ping

b. 1995, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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