Cats and Girls
Caroline Wong’s pastels of females and felines feasting together force a duality, eliciting a mixture of joy and revulsion, provoking pleasure with disgust. While nauseating, while dizzying, they are cathartic too, life-affirming. Her women: drunken, disheveled, shouting, on the verge of vomiting, spilling sauces, regurgitating soda, bent over the table, splayed out on the bed, kneeling on the floor, slurping, licking, chewing, consuming. We see how warped and uneasy women’s relationship to food is.
Wong takes up space, fills space and makes space, at a large scale. Themes around femininity, queerness, desire, and the right to female pleasure, pervade her pieces. Saturating each canvas, Wong’s mission is to fill that void, to feel no guilt or shame for taking what one needs and wants. But there is that anxiety too, the need to identify what one needs and wants, and the fear that this process of identification will be harder to achieve than one hoped. By taking control of their bodies and diets themselves, Wong’s women still feel out of control. The works signal a release, but with this release, comes also, a panic.
Amelia Wilson
it's the end of the world, let's dance (group show, curated by Jason Wee), Ames Yavuz, Singapore, 2025
SEE-SAW (duo show with Jaiyoung Cho), Seoul, KR, 2024
SEE-SAW (duo show with Jaiyoung Cho), Seoul, KR, 2024
Cake, pastel and charcoal on paper, 89.5 x 68 cm, 2024
Custard, pastel and charcoal on paper, 88.5 x 70cm, 2024
Picnic, pastel and charcoal on paper, 243cm x 133cm, 2023-4
Feline Theatre, charcoal and pastel on paper, 398 x 138cm, 2024 (detail)
Feline Theatre, charcoal and pastel on paper, 398 x 138cm, 2024 (detail)
Feline Theatre, charcoal and pastel on paper, 398 x 138cm, 2024 (detail)
Feline Theatre, charcoal and pastel on paper, 398 x 138cm, 2024
Feline Theatre, charcoal and pastel on paper, 398 x 138cm, 2024 (Berliner Ensemble Theater, Berlin, DE, 2024)
Cream, pastel and charcoal on paper, 60 x 84cm, 2023
Solo booth with Soy Capitán at Art Düsseldorf 2024
Solo booth with Soy Capitán at Art Düsseldorf 2024
Solo booth with Soy Capitán at Art Düsseldorf 2024
Bakery, pastel and charcoal on paper, 64.5 x 50cm, 2023
Biscuits, pastel and charcoal on paper, 64.5 x 50cm, 2023
Tomato sauce, pastel and charcoal on paper, 64.5 x 50cm, 2023
Fruit market, pastel and charcoal on paper, 98 x 70cm, 2023
Ham and cheese, pastel and charcoal on paper, 76 x 70cm, 2023
Lobster, pastel and charcoal on paper, 70 x 92cm, 2023
Frittata, pastel and charcoal on paper, 97 x 68cm, 2023
The Bacchanal, pastel and charcoal on paper, 187 x 262 cm, 2023
Eternal Summer II (install), Residency at Castello di San Basilio, Pisticci, Italy, 2023
Spaghetti lunch, pastel and charcoal on paper, 64.5 x 50 cm, 2023
Tea time, pastel and charcoal on paper, 64.5 x 50 cm, 2023
Midnight supper, pastel and charcoal on paper, 93 x 70 cm, 2023
Eternal Summer II (install), Residency at Castello di San Basilio, Pisticci, Italy, 2023
A Many-Splendoured Thing, Rusha & Co., LA, US, 2023
Japanese breakfast, pastel and charcoal on paper, 233cm x 132cm, 2023
Tea Party, pastel and charcoal on paper, 200cm x 126cm, 2023
A Many-Splendoured Thing (Install), Rusha & Co., LA, US, 2023
A Many-Splendoured Thing (Install), Rusha & Co., LA, 2023
Cats and Girls (solo show, install shot), Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2022, Roman Maerz
instant noodles, pastel on paper, 50 x 65cm, 2022
untitled, pastel on paper, 55 x 72cm, 2022
tteokbokki, pastel on paper, 50 x 65cm, 2022
Birthday Party (after Foujita), pastel and charcoal on paper, 276cm x 315cm, 2021-22
Fruit salad, pastel on paper, 50 x 65cm, 2022
Cats and Girls (solo show, install shot), Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2022, Roman Maerz
Antipasti, pastel and charcoal on paper, 135 x 190cm, 2022
Cats and Girls (solo show, install shot), Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2022, Roman Maerz
Cats and Girls (solo show, install shot), Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2022, Roman Maerz
Tagliatelle, pastel on paper, 50 x 65cm, 2021-22
Cheesy chips, Tempura, pastel on paper, 50 x 65cm, 2021-22
New Year's Eve Dinner, pastel and charcoal on paper, 180 x 250cm, 2022
Cats and Girls (solo show, install shot), Soy Capitán, Berlin, 2022, Roman Maerz
Tempura, pastel on paper, 50 x 65cm, 2021
Peach pastel on paper, 55 x 72cm, 2021
Drawing Room (after Balthus), pastel and charcoal on paper, 150 x 220cm, 2021
Pasta Party, pastel and charcoal on paper, 136 x 220cm, 2022
In the land of Cockaigne (install), Quench Gallery, Margate, 2022
Scavengers, pastel and charcoal on paper, 250 x 300cm, 2020
Breakfast Party, pastel and charcoal on paper, 315 x 276cm, 2021
MA Show (install), City and Guilds of London Art School, 2021
Install shot, Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London, 2021
Install shot, Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London, 2021