Untitled. 2010. Installation. Viewers were invited to walk over the drawings as they were looking at them. Charcoal on plywood.

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WENDY TAY is mainly concerned with creating pieces that address cultural and socio-political issues. Her artworks question and subvert the viewer’s perceptions of the space of the art gallery.

For Untitled (above), the gallery floor is covered in charcoal portraits which are drawn “from a bird’s eye view, as if looking down at a gallery opening full of mingling people from above. It could be you. We are socially conditioned to treat artwork as precious and sacred – we speak softly in museums, we maintain respectable distance, we are never to touch the work. The museum as sanctuary; the museum as mausoleum.

This piece is the opposite of untouchable art. You enter the space, you walk around, you smear the charcoal under your feet.  Activating the space means wiping out the drawings. Or perhaps  you are adding to the drawings through movement? The art exists only through its own obliteration. ”

WENDY TAY received her BA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and is currently working as a research assistant in her hometown.

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