London, February 2026 – Saatchi Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by London-based British-Malaysian-Chinese artist Caroline Wong. Titled Girls Who Devour and open to the public with free entry in Gallery 2 (Ground Floor) from 27 March to 6 May 2026, this exhibition brings together three interconnected bodies of Wong’s work: Cats and Girls, Hungry Women, and Picnics and Parties. Across pastel drawings and mixed-media paintings, Wong explores femininity, appetite, desire, and excess through scenes of convivial consumption and intimate female gathering.
The exhibition positions voracity as a feminist method. Wong’s women feast, drink, spill, and linger within feverish, highly saturated, sensorial environments, transforming acts of eating into gestures of female agency and pleasure. Appetite emerges as an aesthetic modality through which women reclaim bodily autonomy and resist historical expectations of restraint and delicacy, reversing their longstanding positioning as consumable objects.
Yet this celebration of appetite is marked by tension. In Hungry Women, where imagery draws from mukbang livestream culture, eating becomes simultaneously pleasurable and performative – a spectacle shaped by the demands of visibility in the digital age. Acts of consumption oscillate between intimacy and exhibition, nourishment and labour, suggesting that eating can function as a means of survival within economies of attention and platform capitalism. The works therefore interrogate the ambivalent space between empowerment and objectification, agency and vulnerability.
Oscillating between exuberance and unease, these scenes evoke the complexities of desire and self-knowledge. Pleasure borders on loss of control, and indulgence becomes both liberating and vulnerable. The works foreground communal female spaces in which friendship, intimacy, and emotional nourishment converge through shared acts of consumption, unafraid of the gaze of others, suggesting a form of empowerment grounded in togetherness.
Across the exhibition, Wong’s tactile mark-making mirrors the immediacy of eating and touching. She produces sensorially evocative images that reinforce excess as a vital aesthetic modality woven into the very fabric of girlhood.
Adapted from text by Sophie Guo, curator and art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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Location: Gallery 2, Ground Floor
Admission: Free, with a suggested donation of £3
Open to the public: 27 March – 6 May 2026
Hours: 10AM–6PM (last admission 5.30PM)
ABOUT CAROLINE WONG
Caroline Wong (b.1986 Ipoh, Malaysia) is a British-Malaysian-Chinese artist based in London. Wong graduated with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2021. She also obtained a Diploma in Contemporary Portraiture from The Art Academy in 2018. Awards include the Drawing Room Biennial Bursary Award (2021), The Society of Women Artists Derwent Art Prize (2018), and the Liberty Specialty Markets Art Prize (2018). She was also selected for the Castello San Basilio residency, Pisticci, IT (2023). Selected solo exhibitions include: Girls who Devour, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2026); Picnics and Parties, Belenius, Stockholm, SE (2024); A Many-Splendoured Thing, Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, US (2023); Artificial Paradises, Soho Revue, London, UK (2022); and, Cats and Girls, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: The Power of Small Things, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2025); Myths, Dreams, and New Realities, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2025); It’s the End of the World, Let’s Dance, Ames Yavuz, Singapore, SG (2025); You Were Bigger than the Sky, You Were More than Just a Short Time, Gallery Belenius, Stockholm, SE (2023); In the Land of Cockaigne, Quench Gallery, Margate, UK (2022); and, Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021).
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Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current 70,000 square feet space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history.
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