Maggie Wong: UNITY

Imagine growing up, being part of a community where the working class and oppressed nationalities band together united in their belief to make a more perfect union, to transform society into a brave, new world.

Utopia? Maybe Shangri-La even?

For Maggie Wong, such is not a dream nor theory but her history chronicled in newsprint as a movement impacting her upbringing.

Inspired by the museum itself as a phenomenological site, the artist raises the question of what it means to reinsert the biographical as historical record? How might inclusion of a politicized document affect institutional dogma?

So through her social practice as a sculptor, she recreates in tribute that time and place from her childhood, a formative period still informing how she shapes memories to give it body so as to flesh out and provoke beyond the mainstream.