Hong Wai 洪慧: Alternative Landscapes - Fragrant Mountains (異山水 系列)

In the paintings by Chinese artist Hong Wai, the human body and the traditional landscape are simultaneously transformed by the artist’s personal deconstruction. Especially the Alternative Landscape series, there the landscape with mountain and water, the highest spiritual and moral metaphor in Chinese painting, is secretly deconstructed by the artist into the voluptuous bodies. 

While the traditional Chinese geomancy sees the energy forces in the chains of mountains as an embodiment of dragon, Hong Wai depicts this cosmic body as an undulating body of femininity, and the most sensuous women’s underwear.

Medium: Ink & color on silver Xuan paper mounted on wood

Dimensions: 95 x 105 cm

Year: 2024