Wong Ping Creates Videos Imagining Phantasmagorical Worlds Unbound by Social Mores

Around two years ago, Wong Ping took an interest in varicose veins. Bored one day while riding an elevator, he noticed them on a passenger’s legs. “I could see them very clearly,” he said from his Hong Kong studio during a recent Zoom interview. He began researching online, reading about gels that alleviate the discomfort they cause. What would it be like, he wondered, to be a varicose vein?
That inquiry wound up forming the basis for Wong’s latest video, which debuted th