Jingyi Wang, as one of the candidates for the "Young Artist Training Program Open Call," received guidance and exchange from mentor Dong Bingfeng and Shen Chen during her creative process. Through continuous experimentation and refinement of her work, she ultimately presented two series, "Metamorphosis" and "Deep into the Undress" in her exhibition. The solo exhibition, “All at One Point," is showing from March 5th to March 26th, 2023, at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre 3.0space.
My early practice focused on drawing keyframes, backgrounds and various animal or human figures for photographic and video works. Later, I shifted towards using oil painting and watercolor to present the colors and fluidity in the images. My experience in composing and selecting colors for film photography during the early stages of my practice continues to provide me with inspiration for painting and drawing. Additionally, based on my research on still and moving images in film, I continued the idea of drawing storyboards for video works in the second series of works "Deep into the Undress", and explored the process of changes in biological forms over time through linear creative approach.
· Preface ·
“…, we can establish the moment when all the universe’s matter was concentrated in a single point, before it began to expand in space.
… ‘where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space’…”
———“All at One Point” from “The Complete Cosmicomics” Italo Calvino
The exhibition "All at One Point" explores and depicts the frozen moments of life being created from chaos to order. The first series of works "Metamorphosis" starts from a broad perspective, showing non-human, animalistic, or human-beast hybrid creatures that might have inhabited in the pre-creation world, and freezes their forms at the moment of suspension in zero gravity. The second series of works "Deep into the Undress” uses the uterus as a metaphor for the universe, exploring the mysterious state of the fetus surrounded by amniotic fluid and the symbiotic yet separable relationship between mother and child.
The exhibition "All at One Point" explores and depicts the frozen moments of life being created from chaos to order. The first series of works "Metamorphosis" starts from a broad perspective, showing non-human, animalistic, or human-beast hybrid creatures that might have inhabited in the pre-creation world, and freezes their forms at the moment of suspension in zero gravity. The second series of works "Deep into the Undress” uses the uterus as a metaphor for the universe, exploring the mysterious state of the fetus surrounded by amniotic fluid and the symbiotic yet separable relationship between mother and child.
