Wong Hoy Cheong: Whose Text? poses a fundamental question about what—and how—we read and learn about ourselves. The exhibition brought together, for the first time, a significant body of the artist’s works that take the historical document as their point of departure. Anthropological treatises, political tracts, biographies of statesmen, school textbooks, and even the Malaysian Constitution are subjected to processes of destruction and reconstruction. Among the featured works are seminal pieces such as “Text Tiles” (2000), an installation of floor tiles made from the pulp of books on Asian history and biographies of world leaders, which visitors are invited to trod on, and “Map of Buckingham Street and its Vicinity” (2002), in which a map of the artist’s hometown of Penang is rendered in the style of 17th-century cartography and transposed onto a map of London’s Buckingham Street.