Christine Wong Yap
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Christine Wong Yap weaves visual art with social practice, approaching her work as a tool to foster community and explore themes of wellbeing and belonging. Her site-specific works - often facilitated through community workshops and exhibited in ‘non-art’ public spaces - combine text with comics, diagrammatic drawing and textile elements. In zines and publications, she collects stories from across the globe to create a symbolic document for collective memory. Always invested in the stories that inform her artworks, she says: “Why not make the backstory - the usually-unseen where, who and how - as visible and present as the what?” Through poetic records of human experience realised in multiple artistic forms, she demonstrates the ways in which communal creativity can contribute to both individual and societal resilience.
