Kate Ngan Wa Ao

The artist is originally from Macau, and has lived in Wroclaw for eight years. Her work finds inspiration from various visual cultures, childhood memories, issues of racial identity. He often transforms and reworks archives, photographs and everyday objects, combining different materials and cultural symbols to reveal intricate meanings in the process.

During the Norwegian residency, she wants to deconstruct the question “where do I come from?”; is it a national concept or an individual experience? The artistic process will be combined with dialogues, locally written answers, and stories of collections of locally found objects that carry the idea of identity. As a result, we can expect an installation in an engaged art form. 

Artist statement:

“Colors have played a crucial role in art throughout history. However, they have increasingly become a political statement. As an Asian, I began to understand the implications of being a person of color living in Western countries. Colors represent various aspects of our lives, defining our values, political affiliations, and racial discrimination or conflicts, while also symbolizing unity, such as the rainbow representing LGBTQ rights or the blue and yellow showing support for Ukraine.” 

“Whose voices are heard? An exchange program for foreign artists from Poland and Norway” is a project co-financed by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway from the EEA Financial Mechanism 2014-2021 under the Culture program.