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The first time I engaged in conversation with Caroline Wong for the writing of this very text, I encountered her through my laptop screen. Her studio backdrop featured one of her large-scale paintings and it seemed as if the artist joined one of her exclusively female circles. I had been eagerly anticipating this conversation for a while, as I had studied Wong's paintings extensively. I realised that they seemed both very recognisable and simultaneously very distinctive.

The moment of recognition may be attributed to my classical education as an art historian, as my inner eye recalls the …