2025.7.19 – 2025.9.4
Skincare

Verse 1
The contempt in our glares felt new and bracing, but after some emotional bloodletting, we became Fast Friends. Nothing is ever that serious or superficial~ Choice is such a faux pas… ew! Epidermal plush vibe carries peristaltically to microvilli touch. Heart health is accomplice to atrial hate. Unlike magnetism is 4EVA. Surfaces and scenes can sour and storm quickly, like an open avocado on a kitchen countertop. Rei Terada avers that phenotypical interpellations can easily be substituted to a suggestive meta level of “stances.” Something Good is sweetened by Something Bad, even seeks it out as requirement, like ants crawling over wet potpourri.
The flutter of a French cuff too long for its wrist, passports forgotten on a plane, free shots, angel numbers on a license plate. I learned the thrill and sting of convictions unplanned, but all of us together felt like driving one too many flower stems through the curt lips of a wine bottle.
The beads on our friendship bracelets are too small to photograph well, and the nostalgia of stationery shops stuck in the past don’t have enough therapeutic give, no longer distract and compensate. When did youth stop being enough?? That kind of hubris no longer defrays the censure and criticism of a bildungsroman. Parlaying Liliana Doganova in her study of the political technology of financial discounting: “who [among us] can afford to look to the future?” to decide or deride the value of things, time, and people… in other words, to be an Investor.
Embedded Story cosplaying as Chorus
Love is limerent for Money. On-again off-again queerbaiting breeders fickly opening their ‘partnership’ to Fame, Sex, & Power…i.e. the REAL baddies, an unholy trinity who would likely counsel that Thigh gap personified is an admirable ambition. petalled flip phone fell through last night!!!^.^ Horizontal to vertical – Another kind of order. Like a selfie mirror so high up, only model girlies can reach it~ Matte cars in the shade of Slam-The-Door-SHUT Slate. BMI calculator. Gatekeep. Close ranks. Phalanx. Protect Your Peace. Learn from Estella, the OG frenemy, & get creative with hypergamy! You are BANISHED to the back of the line! Thanks for being a fan… but this is a DOLLS-ONLY section. Beauty by Dysphoria. For a limited time only. Rejection therapy can’t buy your serenity.
Back to basics: LIVE. Feel the rain on your skin~ Am I losing eyelashes in the shower?? According to Internet remedies, I gotta drink spinach water, eat edamame, and drive an orange Bugatti. Oh, and remember to pump my stomach for capsule shells… Staticky 1996 magazine promotional video: Please tell me what to do with my Life!?! Peel away the perfection of skin and see skein.
AI can’t match your cupidity. The millennial comeback to your deepfakes? “I Am Me” – the sophomore album by Ashlee Simpson. Poison is commonly administered as its own antidote.
The closest you’ll get to befriending Purity is your next Labubu, but The Dolls know that haunted Furbys will never leave you!!! Resilient like plastic orchids.
Toxic Positivity Outro (Algorithmically sourced)
level up in private ~ grow in solitude ~ i lost a man but i won my peace ~ who checked on you today? exactly. so just keep focusing on yourself ~ don’t get mad. don’t get even. do better. much better ~ i burn bridges as needed. i’m no longer a people pleaser ~ be valuable, not available ~ never let a person who didn’t see your value make you forget your worth ~ people talk about you because they lost the privilege to talk to you ~ just because i don’t require much doesn’t mean i deserve the bare minimum ~ the people who want to stay in your life always find a way ~ disrespect can permanently shut doors that apologies can never reopen ~ stop overplaying your role. deal with people how they deal with u : hardly, barely, accordingly ~ for my peace: i delete, i block, i disown, i leave, i ignore ~ i don’t believe in competition because A. you can’t be me, and B. i don’t wanna be you ~
Siri play “Graduation (Friends Forever)” by Vitamin C…
Text by Wong Binghao (Bing)
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Digital Collage: Xuan Phan
Writing, Curation, and Creative Direction: Wong Binghao (Bing)
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Wong Binghao (Bing) is a writer, editor, and curator. They are the editorial and creative director of 5G Bing, an internet grimoire. They approach art and culture essayistically and practice the curatorial in and often beyond the exhibition form. They are invested in developing discourse around contemporary art practices, especially in relation to transfeminist approaches to gender, sex, love, popular culture, and technology. Concurrent with over a decade of independent curatorial and creative practice, they have eight years of institutional experience across curatorial, editorial and program departments, including as C-MAP Asia Fellow for the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 2020–2023.
Installation Views
Artworks
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Sandra Mujinga, Slow Water 2, 2023
112 × 82 × 6 cm
Plexiglass, paper, acrylic paint, invisible seal glue
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Sandra Mujinga, Slow Water 3, 2023
112 × 82 × 6 cm
Plexiglass, paper, acrylic paint, invisible seal glue
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Sandra Mujinga, Slow Water 4, 2023
112 × 82 × 6 cm
Plexiglass, paper, acrylic paint, invisible seal glue
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Dan Lie, 5000 Years Ago, 2024
Watercolour, gouache, oils stick, oil pastel, soft pastel, dry pastel, graphite, ink, charcoal on paper, framed
130 × 138 cm
145 × 148 × 4 cm (with frame)作品信息Information -
Dan Lie, The Reek Testimonial 0, 2024
Watercolour, gouache, oil stick, oil pastel, soft pastel on paper
31 × 16 cm
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Dan Lie, The Reek Testimonial 13, 2024
Watercolour, gouache, oil stick, oil pastel, soft pastel on paper
40 × 30 cm
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Dan Lie, The Reek Testimonial – Strange Force, 2024
Watercolour, gouache, oil stick, oil pastel, soft pastel on paper
41 × 21 cm
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Ren Light Pan, Untitled (plaid dress), 2024
Pigment, water, infrared light, canvas
175 × 120 cm作品信息Information -
Ren Light Pan, Untitled (gift), 2024
Ink, water, infrared light, canvas
76 × 106 cm作品信息Information -
Ren Light Pan, Reflection in dress shop window, 2024
Ink, water, infrared light, canvas
200 × 150 cm作品信息Information -
Kang Seung Lee, Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Lightning Field, North Dakota, 1978), 2021
Graphite on paper, wood frame
20 x 20 cm
41 x 41 x 4 cm (with frame)
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Kang Seung Lee, Untitled (Tseng Kwong Chi, Bordeaux, France, 1985), 2021
Graphite on paper, frame
24 x 23 cm
51 x 51 x 4 cm (with frame)
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WangShui, Formless Filth Study, 2024
Copper mesh, urethane and oil paint
59 x 32 cm
65 x 38 x 4 cm (with frame)
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Evelyn Taocheng Wang, POSTER, 2021
Ink, mineral color and artist’s seal of Turtle Move on paper
40 x 48 cm作品信息Information -
Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Flags of Friesland, 2021
Ink on paper
48 x 45 cm
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Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Quote with Background of Sakura and Leftover Pizzas, 2024
Calligraphy ink, ripe xuan paper mounted on raw xuan paper, then remounted on canvas; oil paint, pencil, wax-based varnish, bookbinding glue, gesso, and linen
200 x 200 x 2.5 cm
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