Between Sun and Moon

mother's tankstation, London will present a solo exhibition by Hong Kong based artist, Stephen Wong Chun Hei. Wong’s colours are electric, back-lit almost. As a passionate Gamer, equal to the passionate hiker, the tones are vibrant as if the viewer has selected Gaming mode on the remote. Similarly the ‘resolution’ has been cranked up to 4K super-high-definition, maybe a bit more. There’s a remarkable and conceptually expansive Latin expression, amplissium terrarum tractum, which broadly indicates the complex sensation of being at a great height and having the out-of-body experience, seeing and feeling everything, all at once, all at the...

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'Between Sun and Moon', installation view, mother’s tankstation, London, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and mother’s tankstation Dublin & London
Stephen Wong Chun Hei (b. Hong Kong, 1986), lives and works in Hong Kong. At the forefront of Stephen Wong Chun Hei’s paintings lies a complex amalgamation of visual data, informed by the traditions of plein air and the landscape that surrounds him, that of his native city of Hong Kong.

Wong Chun Hei composes intricate, hyper-real, phantasmagoric...

Stephen Wong Chun Hei (b. Hong Kong, 1986), lives and works in Hong Kong. At the forefront of Stephen Wong Chun Hei’s paintings lies a complex amalgamation of visual data, informed by the traditions of plein air and the landscape that surrounds him, that of his native city of Hong Kong.

Wong Chun Hei composes intricate, hyper-real, phantasmagorical worlds that, yet while inextricably rooted to the ‘real’, subtly explore the interplay of human interaction, in and on nature, and our relationship with the natural world, heightened by a magnified understanding from the development of new physical and virtual technologies; gaming, GPS, digital mapping, etc. Embedded in his unique and stylised depictions of mountain-scapes, waterfalls, archaeological landmarks, undulating forestry and waters are segments of Hong Kong’s infrastructure – railways, boats, bridges and high-density- high-rises – that lead us to and from recognisable ‘reality’ into a transportable, fantastical world, that exhibits a clearly purposed intellectual navigation of traditions of the sublime, utopian, primal exotica and conversely, the quotidian every day.