This exhibition marks a signal moment: anothermountainman's first solo art exhibition in the United Kingdom, framed as a focused retrospective of an artist whose multifaceted practice has consistently defied easy categorization. For over two decades, Stanley Wong, a cultural icon of Hong Kong, operating under the guise of anothermountainman, has traversed the terrains of advertising, graphic design, photography, installation, and filmmaking, wielding each medium as a tool to dissect the intricate interplay between the social sphere and the introspective self.
“soul & social," as the exhibition is titled, presents a carefully curated selection of works that trace a compelling arc in anothermountainman's artistic journey. The exhibition charts a course from outward-facing explorations of social values — a theme the artist has consciously engaged with since 2001 under the banner of "Social"— to a more internalised realm of "Soul”, deeply informed by Zen Buddhist philosophies and mantras. This transition, unfolding across the gallery's ground floor and basement, might initially appear as a stark departure. However, it is more accurately understood as an organic evolution rooted in Wong's embrace of Buddhism in the early 2000s, a "graduation," as the artist terms it, towards a spiritual continuum.
