Crossing light

For this visual essay, Suling Wang’s contribution comprises a series paintings on paper, which are juxtaposed with photographic images of the artist’s native Taiwan, combining gestural mark-making with collage to reflect on themes of cultural identity, location and memory. In particular, notions of abstraction and representation are explored in relation to the changing landscape and the artist’s own personal history of travel and living abroad. The work meditates on the abstraction of the painter’s forms in relation to Chinese landscape painting as well as the role of travel and experience in artistic expression.