Freya Fang Wang

Freya’s practice is deeply rooted in the interconnection between Taoist philosophy and her immersive experience of the natural world. While she was born and raised in an Eastern context, she seeks to extend to the universal human experience beyond the distinctions of Eastern and Western cultures.

Through an engagement with cosmology seen through the prism of Taoism, she transforms this rich philosophy to speak to contemporary philosophical and social concerns around the climate and spirituality.

A meditative painting process engaging her bodily awareness and consciousness, Freya taps into vibrations of the cosmic energy field in the universe. In doing so, she explores the Taoist concept of interconnection and unity. This reflectiveness creates in her practice a visual language of blurry and entangled organic circular shapes, mirroring the interconnection between all creatures in the natural world.

Freya has a passion for exploring the possibility of combining Eastern and Western approaches to materiality. By combining rice paper, acrylic, ink, plaster, and glass paper she is developing a unique textured surface for her ethereal paintings. The paintings span time and space reaching from the ancient to the modern world.

It could be said that art provides her with a way to exist in balance with the universe and to approach what Carl Jung called 'the secret code', bringing order to chaos, which is what Lao Tzu called 'the Tao'.

Mar.2023. London