2024
16mm and HD video
16 minutes

A structuralist meditation on alienation and exploration, Pyramids and Parabolas III draws from six years of solo expeditions to landscapes that mirror extraterrestrial terrains. Filmed across Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Iceland, and the Arctic, the work layers poetic narration with vivid imagery of deserts, ice fields, and volcanic formations. Wang uses the camera as an embodied vision to investigate both the physical and psychological solitude of navigating these spaces, connecting the elemental patterns of the Earth to the vast, unknowable geometry of the universe. The work also ties these reflections to Wang’s personal history, recounting her grandfather’s life as a Chinese spy and linking themes of secrecy and survival to the metaphorical isolation of astronauts and explorers.