Presenting:
[penthaus’], 2017
Two Channel Synchronized Video Installation with 5.1 Surround sound, 3D animation, Infinite loop
Sound by Tim Fodness
Arthub is honoured to present Wang Yefeng’s 2-channel video “[penthaus’]”. Arthub has screened another artwork in 2016 of the artist, “Drifting Stage” in 2016. This time, the artist is inspired by the ancient Chinese book “A New Account of the Tales of the World”.
About the artwork
A story in the old Chinese book “A New Account of the Tales of the World” has been staying on my mind. In the story, the Wei Jin period drunk poet Liu Ling was lying wasted and naked in his house, and claimed the universe as his house, and his house as his underpants. In [’penthaus], I fabricated a metaphorical virtual house with 3D models of a common pair of jeans and daily objects, and created a pig without back-limbs as the main character. It poses an allegorical question: the notion of both the house and the pants are obscure to this character, and at the same time he has no choice but to live in this pants that he can never fit in.
About the artist
Frank WANG Yefeng (b. 1984, Shanghai) is an interdisciplinary artist who works across media including Experimental 3D animation, VR, 3D printing and installation. Yefeng’s practice produces an absurd and poetic entanglement of reality and fantasy. Traveling and seeking-home as an immigrant remain at the center of his storytelling, where his uncanny moving-images and non-linear narratives challenge the capital nature and main-stream application of digital visual media.
Yefeng received an MFA in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011, and currently serves in the Digital Media Art program as an Associate Professor at Rhode Island College. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including BRIC Biennial (Brooklyn, NY), Knowdown Art Center (Brooklyn, NY), File Festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Governors Island Art Fair (NY), El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe (NM), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, IL), International Festival Les Instants Video (Marseilles, France), Festspielhaus Hellerau (Dresden, Germany), K11 Museum (Shanghai, China), etc.