Cosmos Cinema
November 9, 2023 - March 31, 2024

https://www.powerstationofart.com/whats-on/programs/shanghai-biennale/artists-and-artwork/alice-wang

Alice Wang’s sculptural forms shine a light on the uncanny forces that shape the physical world. Using material such as fossils, meteorites, moss, and heat—ranging from leftover radiation from the Big Bang to the wax secreted by bees—her work aims to reconfigure our understanding of reality.

Comprising more than 100,000 individually hand-painted glass tiles placed in interlocking but unfixed patterns on the ground, Untitled materializes the chaos of the subatomic world. Based on the behavior of cosmic background radiation generated by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago—the same radiation that manifests as “white noise” on an analog television—the immersive floor sculpture reveals the conditions that prevail in the universe beyond the register of human perception. This mandala-like mosaic is like a “sound fossil,” a two-dimensional representation of reverberations through the fabric of spacetime.