Born in Guangdong in 1990, Isaac Chong Wai is an artist using performance, video, installation, photography, and drawing as mediators to investigate contemporary global phenomena. The artist grew up in Hong Kong but now lives and works between Hong Kong and Berlin. Isaac Chong Wai’s work transforms the emotions, tensions, and memories from human interactions into performative materiality and immersive experiences. His works often wander between the individual and the collective, examining the fragility of the body and systemic violence in social systems and historical trauma, and imagining other possibilities in human relationships. He engages themes of collectivism and individualism, politics of time and space, border, migration, war, militarism, racism, identity politics, LGBTQ, public sphere and human rights. In 2012 he obtained a BA in Visual Arts, the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong and in 2016 a MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, Germany .

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