Bo Wang
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Through new media, installation, and video and film, Bo Wang’s practice embodies sociopolitical and cultural subjects in contemporary China and beyond. His early documentary work examines the power structures, economy, ideology and the ways in which the Chinese state retains its authoritarian rule while simultaneously pursuing capitalism. Working with critical and contemporary materials, Wang’s recent essay-films, as they interface with capitalism and globalization, provide rich potential for critical self-reflection. So too, they engage the complexity between individualism and nationalism, the bizarreness of reality and the structured knowledge system, and authenticity and authority. Wang’s work depicts these provocative portraits of China by presenting contradictions in its cultural identity, transformation of physical spaces, power structures, perception of time and history, as well as production and consumption of images. These subjects are related with each other, especially in the aspects of how we understand the experience of modernity. His art practice is based on research, often on archival materials, myth and historical narratives, as well as accounts of personal experiences.
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Through new media, installation, and video and film, Bo Wang’s practice embodies sociopolitical and cultural subjects in contemporary China and beyond. His early documentary work examines the power structures, economy, ideology and the ways in which the Chinese state retains its authoritarian rule while simultaneously pursuing capitalism. Working with critical and contemporary materials, Wang’s recent essay-films, as they interface with capitalism and globalization, provide rich potential for critical self-reflection. So too, they engage the complexity between individualism and nationalism, the bizarreness of reality and the structured knowledge system, and authenticity and authority. Wang’s work depicts these provocative portraits of China by presenting contradictions in its cultural identity, transformation of physical spaces, power structures, perception of time and history, as well as production and consumption of images. These subjects are related with each other, especially in the aspects of how we understand the experience of modernity. His art practice is based on research, often on archival materials, myth and historical narratives, as well as accounts of personal experiences.