Kapallorek Artist-in-Residence (AiR)
3rd to 31st January 2024
Forrest Wong based in George Town, Malaysia. He earned a Bachelor of Art in Sculpture from Indonesia and co-founded P(art)Y LAB in 2016. He was a finalist for Malaysia’s Bakat Muda Sezaman Award in 2019, participated in ‘Japan Setouchi Triennale’’, and exhibited in New York. His art, blending personal history with imagination, challenges conventional boundaries, inviting viewers to explore the irrational and nonsensical. Through performative and interactive mediums, his artistic focus is on the visceral, aiming to provoke inquiry and thoughts in the viewer before a full understanding is reached.
Instagram: @forrest_wong