Evelyn Taocheng Wang: Being Poetic Ruins Life

Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art presents Being Poetic Ruins Life, the first UK institutional exhibition by Netherlands-based artist, Evelyn Taocheng Wang (b. 1981, Chengdu, China). About “I see the womb as an organ which provides possibility. I think this womb protects me and gives me shelter. It gave me a certain freedom. “ — Evelyn Taocheng Wang Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art presents Being Poetic Ruins Life , the first UK institutional exhibition by Netherlands-based artist, Evelyn Taocheng Wang (b. 1981, Chengdu, China). The exhibition, staged across the CCA’s entire building, offers a comprehensive presentation of Wang’s practice to date, bringing together new commissions and significant works across painting, ink on paper, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and text. Selected through Wang’s ‘make-up box’ approach, a conceptual lens through which she considers Western art history, and her unreliable narrator ‘The Cultural Whore’, works move between fiction, autobiography and cultural projection. Being Poetic Ruins Life assembles an idiosyncratic portrait of Britain shaped by translation, misunderstanding, desire and performance. Wang describes the exhibition as a “layered womb” —a metaphorical architecture and protective space where ideas can be incubated and identities remain fluid. Read more Toggle Multi-disciplinary Installation Painting