Solo exhibition
Chaosmosis: A WANG Yuyang Exhibition
混成：王郁洋个展
Foreword
Zhang GaWang Yuyang’s oeuvre performs a theatre of entanglements: machines that dream, bacteria that glow, language reincarnated as DNA, and mud aspiring toward consciousness. His works are not mere objects but situations in which the fragile membranes of life converse with the machinic abstractions of code.
The exhibition sets biological, machinic and cosmic forces within a fluid interplay of order and disorder. Against the obsolescence of anthropocentric history and the anxieties of the AI era, the works seek continuance, renewed beginnings and human empathy through chaos, collapse and chance.
Works and projects
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Human and machine alternately take the other’s image as material until either chooses to stop. Collaboration becomes mutual stimulation, provisional reconciliation and the emergence of a new order.
Iron, stainless steel, brass, red copper, plaster, fiberglass and sand; 800 × 380 × 600 cm
A worn metal sphere learns the rotational patterns of the human eye and turns to “gaze” back at visitors as they enter.
Stainless steel, motor, camera and computer; 150 cm diameter
Programmed light tubes move, retreat and rotate, breaking their initial formation and continually forming new relations with one another and their power cables.
Motors, LED light tubes, computers and cable; dimensions variable
A mixed culture of genetically modified ingredients produces a blue rare in living organisms, turning colour into a work of synthetic biology.
Microorganisms; 32 × 43 × 82 cm
Human definitions of microbes are encoded as A, C, G and T and inserted into rapidly reproducing microorganisms, which mingle with those already in the gallery and those carried in by visitors to form a “third nature.”
Microorganisms; dimensions variable
An AI learns from the artist’s images to generate “shapes of consciousness”; clay, weeds and microbes allow the sculpture to evolve and disappear over time.
Soil, biosynthetic microbes and microbes; dimensions variable
Air released from an ancient ice core is collected for visitors to breathe, allowing the present-day body to enter prehistoric time.
Red copper, microcomputer, micromotor and oxygen; 420 × 400 × 180 cm
A device may shatter the aquarium on any day—or not at all. A newly generated random sequence suspends danger in an unknowable time.
Aluminium, glass, microcomputer, micromotor and marine fish; 150 × 60 × 80 cmInstallation views
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