VII. Undergraduate work: Labor and Maintenance
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As an undergraduate at the San Francisco Art Institute, Wong turned her attention from painting to performance. How female bodies navigate space was still a concern for her, though here, she moved from domestic spaces into spaces of labor to investigate how bodies might leave visual or sonic traces. Maintenance closet and Trace documented the residues— handprints, suds—left by Wong in her work as a janitor at SFAI. In Crevice (1992), she inspected the crevices between the slats of wood in a paneled wall at the school with a magnifying glass in an attempt to apprehend the invisible.
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Selected Works: Fragments and Experiments
House painting on canvas , 1989. Oil on canvas. 60 × 48 inches.
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