Tiana Wong’s installation Wallflowers explores feelings of invisibility in a friendship whereby one’s undivided love to a friend only meets partial attention. When a relationship is one sided and you are left on the outer edges as merely a bystander. The muteness of the colors and textures enhance the feeling of a silent observer who has resolved to stay patiently in the background rather than withdraw.

“’I wish it was only the two of us left in the world. Let’s encounter the world as wallflowers.’ The work explores the equivocal jealousy in an overly close friendship and complicated emotions one faces when defending or guarding the other friend, but only ever feeling like a bystander. ”