Top: Whew, 2012-2013/2023; helium, air, clear nylon film; 180x180x180cm and shrinking; Bottom: Untitled, 2023; stainless steel, each pair: matte black and mirror finish; sizes range from 6.3x6.3x6.3cm ~ 35.4x35.4x35.4cm
Whew, 2012-2013/2023 helium, air, clear nylon film 180 x 180 x 180 cm and shrinking
Untitled, 2023 stainless steel, each pair: matte black and mirror finish sizes range from 6.3 x 6.3 x 6.3 cm ~ 35.4 x 35.4 x 35.4 cm
Untitled, 2021 waveform fossils found in Eastern Europe from the Jurassic Period (199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago), and stainless steel three pieces: 74 x 43 x 84 cm, 107 x 58 x 97 cm, 80 x 54 x 86 cm
Untitled, 2021 waveform fossils found in Eastern Europe from the Jurassic Period (199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago), and stainless steel three pieces: 74 x 43 x 84 cm, 107 x 58 x 97 cm, 80 x 54 x 86 cm
Outside: Untitled, 2023 Ultra matte black paint on 3D printed resin on black sand Dimensions range from 6.3 × 6.3 × 6.3 cm to 35.4 × 35.4 × 35.4 cm Inside (left to right): Untitled, 2015 1000 Watt metal-halide light, silver Mylar, moving reflections on the wall and floor Height variable, 100 cm wide Untitled, 2019/2023 Stainless steel, heat Set of 28, dimensions range from 10 × 10 × 9.5 cm to 12.5 × 15.5 × 13 cm Untitled, 2017 Wind, beeswax, silver 243.8 × 61 × 30.5 cm
Untitled, 2023 Porcelain and vapor Set of 9, 66-97 cm each in height, 16-17.5 cm each in diameter
Untitled, 2017 mimosa pudica dimensions variable
Installation View UCCA Dune Art Muesum
Untitled, 2018 Wet plate collodion photographs on mirror Set of 7, 25 × 20 × 0.5 cm each
Untitled, 2019 Iron meteorite found in Egypt (Gebel Kamil, East Uweinat Desert) 50.8 × 50.8 × 7 cm
Untitled, 2021 Ambrotype Set of 5, 30.5 × 38.1 × 0.2 cm each
Untitled, 2015-16 Left to right: undisclosed object, digital print, undisclosed object, print on aluminum, undisclosed object shelf 36 x 8 x 5 in digital print 8 x 5 in print on aluminum 4 x 3 in
Left: Untitled, 2020; Prism, Crookes radiometer, hand-made white gold tiles, air plants, fluorescent pink isometric grid, wet plate collodion photographs on mirror, glass microspheres table: 121.9 × 243.8 × 121.9 cm; right: Oracle, 2017; Alice Wang and Ben Tong; HD video; 9’42”
Untitled, 2020; Prism, Crookes radiometer, hand-made white gold tiles, air plants, fluorescent pink isometric grid, wet plate collodion photographs on mirror, glass microspheres table: 121.9 × 243.8 × 121.9 cm
Top: Whew, 2012-2013/2023; helium, air, clear nylon film; 180x180x180cm and shrinking; bottom: Untitled, 2023; stainless steel, each pair: matte black and mirror finish; sizes range from 6.3x6.3x6.3cm~35.4x35.4x35.4cm; Untitled, 2023; porcelain (high gloss black glaze and white crackle glaze); dimensions range from 6.3x6.3x6.3cm~35.4x35.4x35.4cm
ucca Dune art museum
The Touching Touched
October 29, 2023 - February 18, 2024https://ucca.org.cn/en/exhibition/alice-wang
UCCA Dune presents “Alice Wang: The Touching Touched”, the most comprehensive institutional solo exhibition of Alice Wang to date. The exhibition is a survey of Wang’s sculptures, films, and photographs from 2013 to 2023, and includes a series of new sculptures commissioned by UCCA. Through three-dimensional, moving image, and photographic forms, the exhibition combines scientific, technological, and mythical perspectives to explore nature in cosmic and subatomic scales at the intersection of the real and the imaginary.One of the highlights of the exhibition is the juxtaposition of Wang’s earliest sculpture Whew (2013) with her latest UCCA commission Untitled (2023) in the main exhibition hall. While Untitled reveals the quantum realm to our human senses, Whew explores kineticism and change, both playing with elemental matter through the sculptural form. Whew, an onomatopoeia, is a large (180 cm3) clear levitating minimalist cube filled with helium. Over time and given its atmospheric context, the sculpture will float around, shrink and expand, and eventually fall to the ground, changing its original shape and state.
Untitled, on the other hand, consists of twinned porcelain sculptures that are identical in shape yet opposite in texture – one is coated in high gloss black glaze and the other is in a white crackle glaze finish – generating different optical effects. The twinned sculptures are modeled after hydrogen electrons in quantum entanglement — they cease to be distinct objects but function as one system that simultaneously inhabits two states. In Wang’s own words, “The physical boundary of the work is not limited to its visible expression.”