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The Dress Shop
2023.11 Video 4mins 53s Performance: Jiarui Ji, Tao Wang
Guy Debord came up with the notion of Spectacle: "The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relation among people, mediated by images.” People purchase spectacles instead of commodities.
Similarly, I view gender more than physical sexuality, it’s more about characters, the masculine or the feminine. Society consumes gender fantasy instead of gender self.
As for the orange, is orange the only fruit?
Eyelash
2023.11 Performance( recording as Video) 3mins 24s Performance: Hao Wang, Yi Zhu Shooting: Nan Zheng
Cooperation work by artist froup 'PIG' (Yi Zhu& Hao Wang).
This video is for dealing with the shame feeling of armpit hair, endowing the armpit hair with the treatment of the eyelash.
Mannequin in the middle: Mama
On the left ground: Vase Child
On the back wall: Corn with Hair
Video and Sculpture on the right wall: Boxing
Video work in the middle: The Circle of Love
Behind the monitor: Mama
Video on the wall: Nurture
in the corner; Vase Child
***Nudity Warning!***
The Circle of Love
2023.07 Video 6mins 10s
Performance: Hao Wang, Yi Zhu, Junruo Fang
Shooting: Nan Zheng
Inspired by the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, I search my mother’s love in different time and space. Through different costumes, I play different characters with the similarity that we are all caught in a quest for identification and love. It is a circle, I struggle in it. However, when I looked back, I saw my mother’s childhood, her growth was not riddled with love, too. We were all suffered, then who was the cause of pain?
Vase Child
2023.05 Sculpture 10 x 22 x 7 cm Made of vase, doll
There is a saying that the criminal gang would traffick children and put them in a vase, then the children’s body will stop growth. They would be display as a freak show to earn tickets.
Here the vase continued as the symbol of parents‘ projector, limiting the growth of children.
Corn with Hair
2023.04 Sculpture
110 x 22 x 7 cm
Made of corn, wig
Replacing the corn silk with human's hair. A practice continued my last unit research——the abjection of body. The human hair replaced corn silk, blur the boundary between the corn and human. And the hair also recalls the hair on private parts, contains sexual imagination.
MA Degree Show Version
Hao's work on the right side, the two monitors
Hao's work on the left side, the two monitors
Video at left: Foot Binding
Video at right: Fetching Carps
Foot-Binding
2023.03 Video 30s
Made of Blue and White Vase
Performance: Hao Wang
In China, we would call the people who looks pretty but empty inside as vase. Here, the vase refers to the children who lose their independence because of their parents. The vase was a symbol of the illusory projection of the perfect child that my parents expected, a projection that bound my feet, making my steps difficult and dangerous. Sometimes I think that, extremely, perhaps what parents really need is a vase that allows them to show off their family education and aesthetic, rather than a child who is alive and has a soul.
***Animal Content Warning!***
***None Animal get hurts in the Process!***
Fetching Carps
2023.03 Video 4mins 43s
Performance: Hao Wang, dead fish
This work inspired from an ancient Chinese filial piety story: A young man named Wang Xiang lied on a frozen river in winter, hoping to catch carps to cure his stepmother's illness. I interpreted this story using the carps as a symbol of filial piety and parents, representing the state of children and parents as a cage for each other.
***Music and dance movements from the movie NeZha Conquers The Dragon King***
Nezha(Reborn)
2023.03 Video 1min 42s
Made of lift, lotus root, artificial lotus, etc.
Performance: Hao Wang
Shooting: Nan Zheng
Inspired by the animation film NeZha Conquers The Dragon King, My video re-enacted NeZha‘s rebirth, discussing the ownership of the body of children under the patriarchal system.
With the music of the film, I imitated the dance movements of Nezha’s rebirth with a new arm by lotus roots which was controlled by my two hands. The lotus root arms meaned the abandonment of the old body, the old custom, and the belief of independence and freedom, yet I always needed the old body to cooperate meaning that I was not really free from my original family and the old system.
Video on screens: Dirt of My Body
Posters on the wall: Hair
Pumpkins on the stand: Pumpkin Policy
Posters on the wall: Hair
Pumpkins on the stand: Pumpkin Policy
Videos on screens: Dirt of My Body
Pumpkin Policy
2022.11 Sculpture 40*45*60cm
Made of pumpkins, LED lights, wigs
Inspired by the just passing by Halloween. Under the current chaotic circumstances, Chinese people were sad and confused. Conversely, in the government‘s propaganda, we all seemed optimistic.
The people are pumpkins that could be carved with faces meeting their needs. The pumpkins are the props in the festival, the people are the tools for advertising the Government’s administration.
***Nude Content Warning!***
Dirt of My Body
2022.11 Multiple Video 15s Each
Made of pumpkins, LED lights, wigs
Performance: Hao Wang
Someday, when I waked up from my bed, I found a lot of dandruff stuck on my pillow. At that moment, I felt despaired. I realised that I, or my body, was a factory producing rubbish.
It recalled the sense of the materiality of the body. It was both shameful but appealing, it was abjection that French philosopher Julia Kristeva proposed.
Armpit (Ver.2)
2022.11 Video 20s
Made of myself, pearls, gloves and others
Performance: Hao Wang
It's a development of Dirt of My Body.
Still focused on the armpit (I had a dermatitis there during that time), I built a simple reaction system. When a hand scratched my armpit, my hand would pour the dirt (pearls) off standing for a cleaning process. After this, my body was unified from fragments into a more complicate system.
Hair
2022.10 Photography
4000*6000 (digital iamge)/ A2 (print)
Made of myself, wig, canon camera
Not only the excrement, the hair also in the gaze of society aesthetics.
I ever saw my friend's nose hair was out from the nose obviously. I laughed at him at first, but then I was confused and shamed, why did I thought the hair funny and inappropriate? Also, the hair has a sense of terror. Hair hardly rot, it will last for a long time. It was a vague evidence of death. Hair was abject as a loathing feeling of death.
Excuse/冠冕堂皇
2022.09 Sculpture 40*34*34 cm
Made of gift box, bows, knife, nylon thread
In the name of doing good for you, it actually brings harm. A beautifully packaged gift box, but upon opening, it turns out to be a sharp blade. Is it Pandora's Box or Troy's Trojan Horse?
Left side, pink monitor: Chain
Two monitors on the bench: Harmless Disposal
3 watercolors on the wall: I'm the Fish
Left side, pink monitor: Chain
Two monitors on the bench: Harmless Disposal
3 watercolors on the wall: I'm the Fish
I'm the fish
2022.04 Watercolor 152 x 122 cm *3
Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
This is a heart wrenching memory, commemorating the suffering of citizens under the lockdown during the pandemic.
Who is the fish?
2022.04 Oil Painting 180 x 30 cm
Oil Painting on Canvas
Untitled(Hairtail)
2022.04 Watercolor 304 x 122 cm
Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Chain
2022.05 Video 5 mins 20s
Performance: Lvwei Tu, Shenyang Zhao, Junyuan Zha
A human trafficking scandal involving local governments, in which a woman was chained to a dimly lit room and believed to be mentally ill, but gaving birth to eight children.
This is an unresolved case that has exploded on the internet without any follow-up now...
Chinese-mas Tree
2022.01 Sculpture 25*34*10cm
Mixed Materials
Culture is politics, culture wars are political struggles. There was an invisible policy in China in recent years, which did not encourage Chinese people to participate in Christmas.
Chinese people appreciate the tenacity spirit that pine trees can grow in winter, but they also want to control them in bonsai art.
Untitled(Watercolor Practices)
2022.01 Watercolor Drawing 31*41cm x 3
Watercoler on Watercolor paper, lace
Watercolor Practice
2022.01 Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Social Animals
2021.11 Sculpture 35-11cm
Mixed Materials
Bird (Otaku Culture): In this piece, I replaced the real bird with a radio to satisfy the bird keeper's need to hear the bird's call.
Snail (Existence Pressure): There was a Chinese term “snail’s dwelling”, which described the existence pressure and depression mood of young people who were struggling to earn a house and life.
Butterfly (Appearance Anxiety): The mirror twined with the bandage looked like a patient after the cosmetic surgery. It resembled a chrysalis, the important transformation from an ugly caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly.
Video for Bird
Collage Practice
2021.05 Digital Collage
Inspired by Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Collage Practice
2021.01 Digital Collage
Inspired by Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Collage Practice
2021.01 Digital Collage
Collage Practice
2021.02 Digital Collage
based on the Madonna del Meadow by Raffaello Santi
Watercolor Drafts(Pearl Corn)
2020.12 Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Belly Foods(Watercolor Sketch)
2020.11 Watercolor on Watercolor paper
Belly Foods
2020.11 Sculpture 7-14 cm
Made of Clay, Paint
Watercolor Drafts(Apple)
2020.06 Marker Pen on Plotter Paper
Untitled(Daffodils)
2020.05 Digital Painting
Untitled(Daffodils)
2020.05 Oil Painting 60*30 cm x 3
Oil Paint on Canvas
🍋 (I'm sour)
2020.05 Oil Painting 50*50 cm x 2
Oil Paint on Canvas
A reflection of Internet culture and symbols, a deciphering game.
The lemon emoji-🍋 is one of the popular ones among Chinese young netizens, in which 'sour' means 'I'm jealous' or 'I'm admired', The lemon was used to express their inner desire.
***Visible Artist Award Shortlisted***
Hurting
2020.01 Oil Painting 60 x 30 cm
Oil paint on canvas
When I first tasted the green mango, it was an amazing taste experience: sour, sweet, a little bit spicy, a complex flavour that built my impression of it. To a certain extent, the green mango refers to human beings.
Through the colour suggestion, the one exerts hurting and the victim are identified into same one. It is a romantic suicide revealing the truth of self-loathing and disidentification with oneself.
Watercolor Drafts(Mango)
2020.01 Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Watercolor Drafts(Slug Banana)
2019.11 Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Indoors
2019.02 PhotographyOil Painting 4000*6000 P *2
Diving Piggy
2018 Oil Painting and Sculpture
60*30*120cm + 75*75cm
Oil Paint on Canvas, Packaged Pork, Lifebuoy
The Moon, Octopus, Hedgehog and Cactus
2018 Oil painting
80*90cm, 60*90cm, 60*90cm, 80*90cm
Oil Paint on Canvas, Clay
Practice of Colors and Emotions
2015 Wax Crayon Painting
27 x 16 cm * 4
Wax Crayon, Color Lead, Watercolor Paper
Inspired by Gustav Klimit
