Yuanying Wang

In recent years, Yuanying has been exploring the field of subculture as a Queer artist. The themes of her projects range from subcultural art genres to social groups. The human body is the best medium for her; her artistic expressions are therefore focused on contemporary jewellery, performance art and other related art forms.

At the same time, the narrative nature of the material is the focus of her current exploration. It is not only the interpretation of the craft, but also the key to giving the subject matter a tangible body. In her creative logic, the storyline always leads to the involvement of different media and materials.

For Yuanying personally，art is an incoherent personal biography, a collection of her fragmented experiences. As such, her work is full of reflections on personal experiences and intimate emotional narratives that seek to be noticed and reflected upon without expecting to establish the same emotional resonance with the viewer, which is what she understands by the diversity of the viewers emotions.As an artist, the interactive nature of performance art is how she exchanges emotions with the audience.

Beyond the fingertips, dialogue with the body is Yuanying’s understanding of contemporary jewellery. The relationship between scale and jewellery is something she has been thinking about for a long time. In her most recent project I COME BACK TO YOU, she portrayed her emotional connection with her mother through the eyes of her Queer daughter and spoke to her understanding of the mother figure. The reconstructed jeans and torn stockings express her vision of breaking the existing social neglect of sexual minorities on the one hand, and her understanding of the narrative nature of materials and the demetallisation of jewellery on the other.

Beyond this, can materials themselves have the same potential to perform as the human body does? This question has led to this series focusing on larger-scale art objects.