Rain
2024, Glass, Aluminum, High-temperature Paint, Cartridge Heater, Temperature Controller, Dimensions variable
WING Po So
2024, Glass, Aluminum, High-temperature Paint, Cartridge Heater, Temperature Controller, Dimensions variable
WING Po So
About the Artwork:
Wing Po So’s installation ‘Rain’ explores the scent and sound of rain drops as they sporadicly fall one by one in to specially designed glass vessels. Each vessel contains a 3D printed aluminium replica of a rock, which is heated beneath by an electric hotplate.
The falling drops of water can only momentarily be seen as fleeting splash marks on the stone’s surface, before they evaporate in to a plume of steam within the glass jar. So describes how, in this brief but poetic moment, the scent of the rain water can enter our nostrils, and transforms into the refreshing fragrance of rain, with which we are all familiar.
Wing Po So’s installation ‘Rain’ explores the scent and sound of rain drops as they sporadicly fall one by one in to specially designed glass vessels. Each vessel contains a 3D printed aluminium replica of a rock, which is heated beneath by an electric hotplate.
The falling drops of water can only momentarily be seen as fleeting splash marks on the stone’s surface, before they evaporate in to a plume of steam within the glass jar. So describes how, in this brief but poetic moment, the scent of the rain water can enter our nostrils, and transforms into the refreshing fragrance of rain, with which we are all familiar.
WING Po So:
Wing Po So was born into a family of Chinese medicine doctors in Hong Kong. She grew up surrounded by medicinal ingredients, which she now often incorporates into her large-scale sculptures and installations that weave together Chinese medical and philosophical thought into multi-sensory experiential wonders. So has exhibited at the 2024 Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Taipei Ju Ming Museum, and the Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture
Exhibition. In 2023, her mixed-media installation ‘Invisible Island’ was shown at the 14th Shanghai Biennale, and she took part in the ‘Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech’ exhibition. Her recent solo exhibitions were held at de Sarthe in 2019, Hong Kong, and Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong in 2018.
Wing Po So was born into a family of Chinese medicine doctors in Hong Kong. She grew up surrounded by medicinal ingredients, which she now often incorporates into her large-scale sculptures and installations that weave together Chinese medical and philosophical thought into multi-sensory experiential wonders. So has exhibited at the 2024 Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at the Taipei Ju Ming Museum, and the Shanghai Jing’an International Sculpture
Exhibition. In 2023, her mixed-media installation ‘Invisible Island’ was shown at the 14th Shanghai Biennale, and she took part in the ‘Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech’ exhibition. Her recent solo exhibitions were held at de Sarthe in 2019, Hong Kong, and Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong in 2018.
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