Wang Xu
Born in Dalian, China. Lives and works in New York.
The artist Wang Xu works mainly in sculpture and video installation. His practice is tainted with senses of eeriness, kindness, and reverie, mediated in delicate and surreal works or compositions. For Wang, sculpture occupies an ambiguous space between objects, experience, and social practice, interceded by time and personal memories. His work, at once taking distance from and addressing the history of art and sculpture, aims to question the nature of social relations, transcendence, and alienation in all fields of contemporary, liberal societies. Wang’s work is intensely concerned with notions of agency and chance from the perspective of both individuals and communities, which he often symbolically pictures under the traits of animals. Institutional critique and fairy-tale imaginaries influenced his work as much, relentlessly questioning one’s ability to escape determining networks and narratives.