媽媽的藥櫃 / Mother’s Cupboard Prints

媽媽的藥櫃 / Mother’s Cupboard Prints

Mother’s Cupboard
Paul Wong, 2019
24″ x 36″ ink jet, colour prints
Limited edition of 5
Series of 10 images

Mother’s Cupboard was presented in Quivering Scene as part of the Through the Riptide As A Canoe exhibition, Dec 28, 2023 to Mar 24, 2024, in He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China. This work comprises 10 photos of repurposed jars owned by Chinese-Canadian elder Suk-Fong and a video recorded in her kitchen. Viewers can observe the meticulous labeling of the herbs and elixirs contained within the recycled Western jars. Wong explains that the artwork signifies mainstream patterns of production and consumption by rewriting and relabeling them for her domestic use.

The exhibition is part of the art museum’s long-time research on overseas Chinese artists, focusing on their education, lives and the connections between their experiences and art. These artists, who have embraced different countries and cultures in their lives, provide fresh and diverse perspectives.

Mother’s Cupboard
Paul Wong, 2019
24″ x 36″ ink jet, colour prints
Limited edition of 5
Series of 10 images

36 Jars are featured in this series of 10 prints from the Mother’s Cupboard series that included public art, mixed media installation and video. The jars in these prints are organized by brand and by coloured lids, they are presented as single, doubles, trios, sextets and grouping of 12. There are 83 jars in the Suk-Fong’s collection of Chinese herbs, medicines and elixirs. Suk-Fong’s jars of Chinese herbs and homemade medicines stored in recycled and appropriated jars of mayonnaise and instant coffee—signifiers of mainstream patterns of production and consumption—by rewriting and relabeling them for her own domestic use.