WMA presents ‘Pollyanna and the Glad Town’, the inaugural commissioned project for its 2025/26 biennial theme ‘Hope’. Hong Kong artist Doris Wong Wai Yin, known for her conceptual practice attuned to everyday experience, ventures into new ground with AI‑generated images alongside performance and video. Rather than resorting to slogan-like declarations, the project probes hope as something far more intricate, authentic and emotionally multifaceted in contemporary society.

The artist introduces the classic children’s literary character Pollyanna－an unwavering optimist who ‘finds the good in everything’－and sends her into the battleground of ‘Glad Town’. Can such a persona remain intact? A series of video and installation works marked by ruptures and a sense of aesthetic excess interrupts our numbness to the digital and physical worlds, prompting us to reflect on the meaning of hope.

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