Mountain Rock

 Wang Zheng, Mountain Rock, Book

(Artist book with written poems and self-illustrated images)

300 pages, 2022

Piece Description

Text: Wang Zheng

“In retrospect, it is not a singular time or space, but a plural spatiality that can account for my cultural identity, which is crucial to my art practice.

The physical geography of mountains and cities, the cultural geography of language, knowledge, and education, and the affective geography of a changing self, all come to form my affective field of being and inform my practice in turn.

As the British scholar Stuart Hall indicates, the Diasporic self is always in a state of ‘becoming,’ and is a product of interactions. My latest work, Mountain Rock presented in this exhibition showcases the mechanism of these interactions and how each of the geographical dimensions unfolds and transforms the discrete trails of affect into a reflective network of experiences.

I sincerely hope that my work will act as a roadmap for audiences to navigate the complexities of their lives and hereby find a sense of strength and freedom in reconnecting with the post-pandemic world.”

-Excerpt from Wang Zheng’s writings on how artworks, in this exhibition relate to Geographies of Feeling