22/9/2016
Leanne Faye 0327020

Official ceremony: TUESDAY 23 Aug, 2016
Time: 10 am
Venue: Center of Design and Architecture (CODA at TULC Commercial Block).

About MINUS THIRTY DEGREES: Most photographers take weather as part of their important factor and consideration in order to obtain ideal photographic results. However, Alex's approach is to use weather and it’s ever changing phenomena as his artistic subject of investigation. Investigating fog and mist formation as his metaphoric subject in the Himalayan borderlands, Wong continues to arrest subject and condition that is below 30 celsius. "The chilling and unfriendliness weather condition keeps people away, and I find it strangely beautiful. It endures my presence, but it is rarely welcoming. The deep silence sounds like eternity, and makes me alive again," Alex describes of his photography. Exhibition begins August 22 – September 2, 2016

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Dr. Yoong Wah Alex Wong grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since January 2003, he is a faculty member at Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, giving courses in the area of Digital Modeling, Computer Animation, Digital Video, Motion Graphics and Arts. He is the Erasmus coordinator at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. In 2006 and 2014, he received the Graduating Class Teaching Award from all faculties at Sabancı University. In 2010, he received the Teaching Award at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabancı University.