WangShui’s work explores divergent structures of perception. Through video, sculpture, painting and installation, they examine the psychosomatic loops that form our experience of the world. The artist’s practice integrates diverse personal experiences and research into desire, architecture and media. A central theme in their work is liminality and its radical potential as a form of resistance. WangShui often addresses the latent space of images and materials as a way to activate the hallucinatory states between detail and distance, transparency and opacity, knowing and unknowing.
Solo exhibitions of WangShui’s work include Toleranzfenster (Window of Tolerance), Haus der Kunst, Munich; WangShui: poiesis, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; Whitney Screens: David Hartt and WangShui, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and WangShui, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, among others.
Group exhibitions of their work include Inheritance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Guggenheim Museum, New York; Human Is, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; Myth Makers–Spectrosynthesis III, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; No Humans Involved, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Open Call, The Shed, New York; International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), The Netherlands; In Practice: Another Echo, SculptureCenter, Long Island City; New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center, New York; and SCREENING, 67 Ludlow, New York, among others.
WangShui’s work has been included in the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, as part of the main exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere.
[excerpted from kurimanzutto website: www.kurimanzutto.com]
