Tang Jo-Hung—The Outsider

Tang Jo-Hung has long been conscious of his marginalized situation, in terms of ethnic identity, living status as well as artistic pursuit and viewpoint. “Even confronting with myself, I still cannot tell where my sense of floating comes from,” he said, and a sense of alienation indeed lingers among his recent paintings. Many of his recent paintings are of people, each with some distinguishing or even odd features, arousing a kind of intimacy while evidently alienated from the environment where they situate. The crevices amongst cognition, identity, environment and individuals thus provide spaces for unrestricted imagination and wandering.