american cheating!!! (phantoms past l-lll)

Kristen Wong

2024- 2025

Medium: mixed media on archival inkjet

Dimensions: 40x30 in, 16x20, 18x24

Price: upon request

Description: " The title “american cheating” is a reference to the media phenomenon of how cheating within relationships is okay if you marry the person you cheat on your former spouse / partner with. within the establishment of marriage as a societal pillar you kind of can’t talk shit about someone’s spouse. it looks bad, gauche. in some ways my work and these images take stolen romanticisms - places - things I wanted outside of myself and what I committed to - and are reframed as solely mine - kind of a manifestation visually that things will work out if I make a vow to them. (I mostly cheated myself) Cigarette lake, office trad wife, leaving for someone or something else, glitter night out on the floor. If I say I did it - or admit to cheating myself by letting it leave my mouth or my house or my brain - can we swallow it? Can I bring my skeleton out of the house? I can live with it if I own it. This is my proof it did happen!"