Solo Exhibition Your Mother Gallery, Singapore
"Your Head" is a delicious title for an exhibition of Tang Da Wu's latest body of work at Your Mother Gallery. Strictly speaking, Da Wu has not been working on "portraits" in the conventional sense of the term. Indeed, Da Wu says frankly that he is "incapable of drawing someone with a good likeness" and he doesn't have his "subject" sit in front of him. But this incapability is most productive for him; it has led him to discover new ways of portraying persons whom he has come across. Using ink and water -- which also allows for a playful sense of ambiguity -- what Da Wu achieves is not a direct likeness of the person being "re-collected" by him. It offers an incomplete but suggestive picture of a human being, an aura or a feeling of the person -- to which the viewer is invited to respond, to "fill in".....
by Kwok Kian Woon
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