Kacey Wong - Tales of Resistance: Allegory and Myth

Kacey Wong is a Hong Kong–born political artist and activist. On April 14 he will return to The Hague for the second time, with a public talk at Leiden University. 

During the talk Wong will will reflect on his experience of exile in Taiwan and share his insights into the aesthetics of protest. Through lived experience narrations and artistic practices, he will discuss how visual language is shaped under censorship, authoritarian pressure and political displacement, exploring the relationship between art and civic resistance. 

Wong interconnects Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Ukraine as military and cognitive warfare sites, bringing us back to the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition movement and along Taiwan’s ongoing geopolitical vigilance. He frames imagination as a form of survival in times of prolonged threat and as a universal tool to fight for resistance, freedom and democracy. 

The talk also accompanies Wong’s first solo exhibition in The Hague presented from 11–26 April at NGO DEI.