Drawing from astrology, geology and mythology in language of minimalism, Alice Wang incorporates a rich array of materials throughout her sculptural practice, from rare-earth minerals and astronomical debris to moss and plants, probing the ineffably sensual spirit of nature. This newly commissioned work is inspired by a section of the Los Angeles River the artist frequented last summer, where the reflection of stones and plants prompted her to look beyond the physical properties of what lies beneath the river in its superficial sense—that of a body of water coursing through earth—to instead consider it as a space of infinity, open to imagination. As visitors move around the sculpture, the porcelain fragments inlaid with gold arranged atop the two-way mirror begin to form crisscrossing tunnels, interacting with the reflection of Hong Kong’s cityscape outside the window… Wang’s formal play with material structure and physical law extends the notions of surface and ground beyond the urban context into the cosmological and the illusionistic. Within the infinite space of myriad reflections, the visitor is invited to travel through different timescales and ponder the evanescence of the built from the vantage point of the universe.
—— Alvin Li, “Liquid Ground” exhibition catalogue, 2021

王凝慧的创作极简地从天文学、地质学及神话学中汲取资源。她将丰富多样的材料融入雕塑创作——从稀土矿物，到天体碎片，再到苔藓与植物……以探索大自然无可言喻的感官灵力。这件新委托作品灵感来自于艺术家去年夏天经常流连的洛杉矶河段，河中石头与植物的倒影让她的思考视野超越了河流表面意义上的物理属性——即将流经大地的水体视为一个开放想象的无限空间。当观众在雕塑周围移动时，排列在双向镜面上的嵌金瓷片就会形成纵横交错的隧道，与窗外的香港都市景观反射交叠。王凝慧……在形式上对材料结构和物理规律的游戏实验，将表面与地面的概念从都市神游到宇宙与幻象之中。在这个反射变幻无穷的无限空间里，艺术家希望参观者体验穿越不同时间尺度的感觉，从宇宙的宏大视角，思考建筑环境的消亡。
——李佳桓，《溢流地》展览画册，2021