Indefinite Boundaries is comprised of 10 large painted panels, created by using a mixture of oil and enamel paint. The artist applied, the scraped off, numerous layers of paint, resulting in the tactile, almost three-dimensional surfaces. Sino-Malaysian Wong Perng Fey has been based in Beijing for a number of years, and derives inspiration from his personal experience of dislocation. He has alluded to the alienation he has experienced in his adopted city; viewed from a distance, the wrinkled, knotted textures of paintings mimic topographies. Here, the choice of gold paint is also a reference to the phenomenon of desertification which threatens his adopted home. The fields of monochromatic colour conjure up both a barren terrain, as well as a sense of personal estrangement in a foreign land. The visuality of monochromatic abstraction is here deployed as a monolithic expression of absence and dispossession.
