Through sculpture, film, and photography, I combine scientific, technological, and mythical perspectives to see how materials found in nature can embody existential qualities. My work merges theoretical examination of nature, materiality, and science with formal exploration in three-dimensional, moving image, and photographic practices by centering the body as a sentient agent situated within a non-geocentric and quantum universe. For over ten years, I have been working with a personal mantra: the Earth is plummeting towards the Sun while just missing it. This statement describes our lived reality and an apocalyptic miracle in the imaginary. Implicit in this cosmic framework is a reconfigured notion of nature within the larger context of outer space, which is hostile and inhospitable to terrestrial organisms. Nature is not limited to the geocentric Newtonian world, but includes planets, electrons, and other celestial and sub-atomic entities.
Alice Wang is a Chinese-born American artist based in New York. She received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and International Relations from the University of Toronto, a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and an MFA from New York University. Wang was an arts fellow at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Villa Aurora fellow in Berlin. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel Hong Kong. Wang has been a grant recipient from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She has presented solo exhibitions at the UCCA Dune Art Museum, Beidaihe, China; Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles; Capsule Shanghai (2017, 2021); Human Resources, Los Angeles; and 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, among others. Wang has also presented work at the Hammer Museum, Galleria Continua, Para Site, Fotografiska, and the 14th Shanghai Biennale. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Mousse Magazine, ArtReview Asia, ArtAsiaPacific, and the Los Angeles Times. Wang is currently an artist-in-residence at ISCP; in February, she will present a selection of her films at the e-flux Screening Room.