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王卉萌
1990, Inner Mongolia, China

王卉萌 1990, Inner Mongolia, China

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Astra Huimeng Wang, This Might Not Be the Darkest Time of Your Life…or it Might!, 2019

This Might Not Be the Darkest Time of Your Life…or it Might!, 2019

Brass, stone, plastic, wood, soil, steel utility cart.
54x24x78.7 in
图片由Make Room和艺术家提供。摄影:Yubo Dong
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Drawing upon research on a systematic body of texts and scholarly tradition in the Western cultural discourse, Wang Huimeng’s practice spans performance, installation, video, sculpture, and the Internet, illustrating the...
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Drawing upon research on a systematic body of texts and scholarly tradition in the Western cultural discourse, Wang Huimeng’s practice spans performance, installation, video, sculpture, and the Internet, illustrating the structure and employment of cultural domination. In Orientalism, Edward Said famously identifies the links between linguistics and anatomy, specifying that a learned Orientalist’s attitude was often “that of a scientist who surveyed a series of textual fragments,” and it’s not the Orient that’s given on the page, but “a truncated exaggeration” of it. Utilizing this canonical approach in its most literal sense, Wang’s sculpture This Might Not Be the Darkest Time of Your Life… or It Might! culls textual objects from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, where an American sailor relates his trip down the Yangtze Kiang in a stream-of-consciousness narration, presenting the Orient as an exotic locale filled with visions of cruelty, terror, sublimity, hostility, and barbaric splendor. In Wang’s work, these restored textual fragments, framed by a scientific (and what Said would call celibate) structure, against what they initially represented, form a new reality. The previous imagination of the East becomes the material, and the East becomes a performed experience of the Western narrator himself in an almost comical way.
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