The works of Tom Hecht and Yin Ming Wong contemplate recreation and sport as nation-building exercises for dominance and resilience. Hecht's sculptural investigations into spatial arenas for sporting events critically decode sporting competitions and parades. Wong's self-portrait paintings of herself engaging in ping-pong games explore the maintenance of a superpower persona from a feminist perspective, challenging Orientalist depictions of the "East" and probing the idea of sport beyond a mere game.

-Sara Raza