DI WANG

Di Wang is an interdisciplinary artist from China and her practice explores questions about mental health, body and home. These questions touch on various psychological diseases and childhood traumas, while insinuating systemic oppression. In the process of making art, she pays attention to emotion, vulnerability and subconscious. Illusion and memory are sources of her creativity. Her previous experience working in K-5 education and the art therapy projects conducted in elementary schools are intertwined into her artworks. She also uses strategies that encompass theater and humor acquired from her graduate study in Indonesian literature and drama. She takes art as a therapeutic form and pursues the visualization of psychological space and transformation of mental negativities. She uses sculpture, drawing, performance and animation to capture psychic fragments. The repetition of behavior, softness and hardness of material, and the ownership and autonomy of space are reoccurring features in her practice.

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MFA | Fine Arts | Parsons School of Design

MA | Southeast Asian Studies | University of Wisconsin-Madison

BA | Malay Language and Literature | Beijing Foreign Studies University