WANG YI-TING 王怡婷
Yi-ting Wang, Taiwanese artist, specializes in site-specific work, installations and sculpture. She utilizes natural materials to explore the essence of life and the exchange and circulation of all visible and invisible energy. She uses drawing as a way to reshape and capture objects’ present images. Through the repeating process of construction and deconstruction, Yi-ting thickens the shapes of natural objects. She infuses her energy into the withering objects, and thus creates a new state of Artist Yi-Ting Wang has long been an observer of energy flow and transformations in the natural world. These transformations are notable in shapes of natural life, artificial objects or all manner of materials. Utilization of ready-mades or natural materials is often seen in her works, applied with her signature sculpture and physical space composition, to rearrange and reconstruct the rhythmic relations between time, space, material, image, energy and trace. Sculptures are placed as medium to interfere between image and space; composition is drawing to connects spaces and forms a new space for perceptual thinking. A similar example is her work in 2018, Disembodied Posture, Yi-Ting Wang brought in a slowly withering pine tree that eventually died, simulating the impossible growth of the very dying pine, combined with light and shadow to produce the texture of physical space composition. Portray the imagination of the different postures in its life stages. Another reference artwork, Passage (2019), focused on the vines growing around a Japanese-style Dormitory. Besides marking the abandoned life/time of the building, the vines were also occupying bricks and gaps, popping up from their secret caves, forming a close yet detach inverse correlation between human intervention and vines.
During the visible and invisible transition /translation of these two- and three-dimensions, bodies and materials, a broad idea of life philosophy is to be overserved: prolongation or termination of energy; growth or decay; existence or vanishing; virtuality or reality, every paradox is an assignment to redefine the relationship between mankind and nature, and a reminder to practice long-term interaction between the two parties.
being for the objects.
born in 1985
work and live in Taipei, Taiwan
Education
2016 Master of Fine Arts (DNSEP), Marseille-Méditerranean College of Art and Design
2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts (DNAP), Marseille-Méditerranean College of Art and Design
2008 Bachelor of Industrial Design, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
Awards
2019 Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Next Art Tainan Award, Tainan, Taiwan
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Sea Rhythms, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Coastline Project II, Galerie Grand Siècle, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Coastline Project, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Unknown Asia Art Fair, Jill d'Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
2020 Impromptu, Haiton Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Disembodied Posture, Soulangh Culture Park, Tainan, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Glory of Mighty Mountains: Ridges between Awe and Respect, Tainan Art Museum,Taiwan
2022 XOXO Sensing Nature, Banqiao 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2021 Mobile Village, Mei-Ling Fine Arts Museum, Chiayi county, Taiwan
Arts in Jetlag - Floating in the Buffering, Stamford Art Center, Singapore
2020 ///\\///, Solid Art, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Magie Verte, Espace29, Bordeaux, France
Re-Public: Your Relation Is My Politics, Banqiao 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2019 Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Madou Junior high school, Madou, Taiwan
Arts in Jetleg Paris, curated by Chun-Ta CHIU, Cité International des arts, Paris, France
2018 Bridge, International Residency Exhibition, G&J Gwangju Jeonnam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Biennale Internazionale Del Tirreno, Corso Umberto I, Cava de’ Tirreni (SA), Italy
Young Art Kaohsiung, Pier2 Art Center Dayong District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2017 Chantons aux vaches, Rue Francaise, Paris, France
2016 ESADMM and CIRVA ( le Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques ) , ESADMM, Marseille, France
2015 RISC 9th International Meetings Sciences & Cinemas, Cinéma Les Variétés, Marseille, France
World EXPO 2015 of CASA TAIWAN table art, CASA Taiwan, Milan, Italy Tracer,Transcrire,Spatialiser l’espace, Gallery MAD, Marseille, France
Residency
2021 Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
Texture Printmaking Studio (Cooperation with Bamboo Curtain Studio), Tainan, Taiwan
2020 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2019 Vermont Studio Center residency, obtain grants from National Culture and Art Foundation, and VSC Artist’s Grant, Johnson VT, USA
2018 Impression, Artist-In-Residency Tainan-Paris, Tainan, Taiwan
Gwangju Museum of Art international artist recidency, Gwangju, Korea
2017 Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan
Chantons aux vaches project , La Plotonnerie, Migné, France