Works in the Exhibition

Da Xian—The Doomsday
1997
fiberglass, oil paint, expired food products, watercolor on paper, black-and-white photographs
30 3/4 x 55 1/2 x 55 1/2 in. (78 x 141 x 141 cm) each of 3 parts

The fact that I, as a Chinese person, was to be in London in 1997 already set the basic tone for this project, because July 1997 marked the end of British control of Hong Kong. It was within this context that I developed my ideas for this project. In this installation, I made five porcelain rice... read more »


Blog

Watch your back, Betty.
Paul Schmelzer
Fri, 02 Dec 2005

Visitors to House of Oracles over the next few days will notice unusual behavior from the blood red-legged tarantula--dubbed Betty by our gallery monitors--in Huang Yong Ping’s installation The Wise Man Learns from the Spider How to Spin a Web (she’s enclosed in the cage above the table in this photo): the spider has flipped [...] read more »


Huang Yong Ping


Writings

Huang Yong Ping, <span class="wac_title">The House of Oracles</span>
Why am I Afraid of Huang Yong Ping?
Philippe Vergne
2005

Things happen. As one works on an exhibition, things happen, coincidences, which make the project more, or less, relevant—whether or not these events are planned, whether or not they are the sweet fruit of a chance meeting. It might just mean that the project was meant to happen, at this place and... read more »


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