Carnival 2020
2018
Color digital video installation with sound
4 min., 53 sec.

The Chinese government is building a social credit system to rate the trustworthiness of 1.4 billion people. If you do something ‘good’, like volunteer at a charity and donate blood, your score goes up. If you do something ‘bad’, like jaywalk, cancel a reservation, or if you are friends with someone with a low rating, your score drops. The absurd world in the television series Black Mirror is becoming a reality in China.
 
Carnival 2020 invites participants to simulate the reality of “future credit society”. They will be asked to complete a series of carnivalesque missions to raise their credit scores, and use the earned credit scores to redeem ‘rewards’ and ‘punishments’. This project is intended to let the audience experience the credit system through highly immersive experiences. The participants will experience how the system eliminates the humanism and shamelessly reconstructs our lives.


 

Exhibition History of Smarter City 2
2019 - New Waveland, HKRI Taikoo Hui — Shanghai, China
2018 - Fantasy City, WF Central Exhibition Hall — Beijing, China
2018 - Art(ists) on the Verge 9, Rochester Art Center — Rochester, MN, USA
2018 - RE-SET, Powerlong Museum — Shanghai, China
 

The animated video The Last Subway follows the narrative of a fictitious video game protagonist ZiyangMon (referring to Pokémon Go) who transforms into a live person. Featuring a late night subway where a series of absurd and carnivalesque stories take place, the viewer travels between mock CCTV newscasts, tbe Japanese pop music video Pen Pineapple Apple Pen, virtual reality footage, and a constructed subway station Los Jing (A virtual city in the combination of Los Angeles and Beijing); shifting between levels of reality like a video game. The work hints at how the virtual world increasingly influences human consciousness on both a macro and micro scale in our highly globalized and digitized society.

Exhibition History of The Last Subway
2019 - Where are we going?, School of Visual Arts — New York, NY, USA
2019 - New Waveland, HKRI Taikoo Hui — Shanghai, China
2019 - Waves from the Horizon, AC Gallery — Beijing, China
2017 - Illimitation, China Academy of Art — Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
2017 - The Model of the World: Zhangzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition,    
            Zhangzhou Museum — Zhangzhou, Fujian, China
2017 - Amassing Force, Today Art Museum— Beijing, China
2017 - Dead Air, Cohen Gallery, Brown University — Providence, Rhode Island, USA

The Story of The Pig
2016
Color Digital Video with Sound
8 min., 42 sec

The Story of the Pig brings the viewer through to an absurd techno world where pigs adopt human-like debased actions, clicking photos of each other as they perform, breeding conformity and haplessly surrendering their freedom – They are destroyed by power in the first chapter (A world related to Aldous Huxley’s 1984) and self-destroyed by entertainment in the second chapter (A world related to George Orwell’s Brave New World) of the video. I appropriated the song “Fantastic Baby” from the Korean pop band BIGBANG, in which the pigs become infatuated with pop culture and ultimately become fans themselves of BIGBANG. The pigs lose their inner feeling and both their rational and creative spirit from a grotesque overdose of stimulation, entertainment and desire. 

Exhibition History of The Story of The Pig
2019 - Ocean, Slime Engine and Madein Gallery — Shanghai, China
2017 - Andy Warhol: Minnesota Goes Pop, Rochester Art Center — Rochester, Minnesota, USA
2017 - WAVELENGTH II, The Hole Gallery — New York, USA
2017 - TimeLine, Rogue Space Chelsea — New York, USA
2016 - Ancestors are so yesterday, 2016 MCAD Faculty Biennial — Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2016 - Meredith Sands / Ziyang Wu. Nancy Margolis Gallery — New York, USA
2016 - New Contemporaries: Selected work from the class of 2016. Gelman Gallery —Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2016 - RISD 2016 MFA Painting Thesis. Nancy Margolis Gallery — New York, NY, USA
2016 - RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2016. Rhode Island Convention Center — Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2016 - The City’s Ephemeral Gestures, Providence Biennial for Contemporary Art — Providence, Rhode Island, USA





 

Xia Che Dan (Bullshit)
2015
Color Digital Video with Sound
7 min., 4 sec
Foam, Wood, Metal
Dimension varies
 

Xia Che Dan means bullshit in Mandarin. It also means “shrimp pulling penis” if translated incorrectly character by character in Chinese. Talking bullshit is a cultural disease of current times, from society to individuals. I transformed the provocative nature of this word and the mistranslation from verbal into something visual with this piece.

Exhibition History of Xia Che Dan (bullshit)

Peng Ci (Staged Crash) presents people’s struggle of truth. They are all holding different opinions and uncompromising. The Staged crashed person, police, money and onlookers, They refer to morality, economy, judiciary and society. These symbols are intertwined, like expanding fragmentations. They squeeze, push, avoid and conflict each other, becoming social spatial structure that is connected and full of conflicts. 

Exhibition History of Peng Ci (Staged Crash)
2017 - WAVELENGTH: Rhapsody In Lines, Times Art Museum — Beijing, China
2016 - Meredith Sands / Ziyang Wu. Nancy Margolis Gallery — New York, USA
2016 - Art Jiangxi International Fair, Nanchang International Exhibition Center — Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
2016 - Circling Justice: The Art of Conflict Resolution, Perpich Center for the Arts — Golden Valley, MN, USA
2016 - Falling. Extra Credit Gallery — Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2016 - RISD 2016 MFA Painting Thesis. Nancy Margolis Gallery — New York, NY, USA
2016 - Prisoners Cinema. Gelman Gallery — Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2015 - The ROCI Road to Peace: Experiments in the Unfamiliar. Academy Art Museum — Easton, Maryland, USA

 

Past Painting Works

Ticket
2015
TV monitor, acrylic  on foam
28 x 35 x 13 inches
11 min., 8 sec
 

 Iridescent Cloud 3
2015
Oil and Acrylic on linen
72 x 48 inches
 

Floating 1
2015
Acrylic, ink-jet transfer on linen
24 x 16 inches

 

Floating 2
2015
Acrylic, ink-jet transfer on linen
24 x 18 inches

Floating 3
2015
Acrylic, ink-jet transfer on linen
24 x 18 inches

Drifting – Substitution
2015
Oil and Acrylic on Linen
52 x 24 inches