In contrast to this pictorial tradition, Wong portraits of women are loud, funny, sensual and sloppy, rendered in a delicious, vivid palette that’s influenced both by the subject matter itself and the vibrant colors surrounding her during her frequent visits to South East Asia. At first glance, the series appears to engage explicitly with the relationship between women and food. However, Wong's series simultaneously interrogates a deeper, more complex nexus of desire, repression, capitalist visual culture, performativity, and objectification. 

“Initially when I started working on the series, I wanted to portray women that were completely unapologetic about putting their pleasure on display, and breaking out of societal constraints as a statement of empowerment. But later on, the more complicated relationship to the visual culture of consumption and capitalism started occurring to me”, explains the artist, hinting at the fine line between self-expression and self-empowerment, and the potential pitfalls of excessive, pathological, and narcissistic representations of the self, often fuelled by capitalism and the influence of social media.

“I like my art having a life of its own - every series I make ends up developing their own character. The works open up a conversation about all these topics without being too didactic or communicating my personal position - I like to leave it up to the viewer how they interpret them.”

Drawing inspiration from a myriad of sources including advertising, mukbang livestreams, films, and social media, the Hungry Women works exudes a sensory richness that is as tantalizing and escapist, as it is thought-provoking. Through a palette of warm, candy-coloured hues and the creamy texture of oil pastels, Wong creates images that tease out contradictions between the hedonistic pleasures of consumption and the unhealthy excesses of a visually saturated world.

“The thing that keeps drawing me to this series and the subject matter is my love for playing around with colour and material , and the sensual nature of the process”, explains Wong, adding: “I have a quite obsessive personality. I tend to stick with themes for a long time.”