Information — Tianyu Wang

Tianyu Wang

b. 1997, in China

She is based in Lausanne, Switzerland and Paris, France. Her work revolves around bodily experiences and phenomena of consciousness, taking the uncomfortable feelings of everyday life as a starting point and developing toward surrealism and fantasy, sometimes even grotesque directions. This approach aims to disrupt and dissolve the inherent properties and functions of things from both visual and narrative perspectives, using the mundane to confront the mundane.
In her image creation, actions serve as the narrative occurrence, and images are created as a result. Through such "New Photographic Actions," she opposes everything she disapproves of with everything she endorses. Her work navigates the "gaps" between memory, experience, and imagination, creating fluid narratives with multilayered meanings characterized by heartfelt imagery. In her works, photography is the "gap" between the internal and external realms. She connects personal experiences with collective history through this process, transforming personalized consciousness into shared awareness. Her creations are deeply influenced by the folklore of her hometown and by art history and psychology.