Above Zobeide, Exhibition from Macao, China

Above Zobeide Series

The Above Zobeide series, including the artwork Above Zobeide and Above Zobeide – Passersby, is a site-specific work tailor-made for this exhibition. Wong Weng Cheong projects his observations of the contemporary lifeworld onto the virtual landscape he began to construct several years ago, metaphorically modelling the shrinking physical and spiritual habitat of our time. Wong presents a desolated urban landscape inhabited by mutant herbivores but not human beings. As visitors step into the exhibition space, they enter an alien world where distinctions between native and intruder are blurred. Live streaming cameras bring the viewer into the scene, blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, visitors and visited, in this strangely familiar land.