Haiyi Wang

Haiyi's artistic practice revolves around the perception of personal emotions in the universe. Her unstable upbringing and female dominated family environment have shaped her sensitive and delicate observation of the world. Her architectural design background enables rational thinking to intervene in emotional creation. Her works often showcase the power of contradiction and the beauty of fragmentation. By photographically documenting the objective existence of objects in decline, she continues to create devices of frozen time, which are a part of all things in the universe and an embodiment of herself.

Natural forces and human intervention are recurring themes in Haiyi's works. She abstracts images of confrontation and cooperation between natural forces and the human world into devices made of multiple materials, creating new decay by using discarded paper and collected old objects as a monument to time-space at that time.

Now she is trying to change and expand many ways of perceiving the world. She is attracted by the central position of printed and replicated materials in contemporary culture. She explores how to use traditional and modern image technology and differing types of materials as tools to convey information and emotions. In an era of numb and emotionless Big Data, she is passionate about preserving precious feelings by creating artworks that incorporate specific materials with symbolic meaning.