Artist / Yiyi Wang
Curator / Yiyao Tang
Time & Date / 11:00am-5:00pm, Oct 9 -25, 2021
Opening / 3:00PM, Oct 9, 2021
Address / TheBLANC Gallery, 15 E 40th Street, 2nd Fl, New York, NY 10016
“An end has a start” is a continuous cycle of opposite states, a revolving loop of moments from the Mobius strip, a representation of the repetition of the printmaking process, and the title of Yiyi Wang’s first solo exhibition with theBlanc Gallery.
“An end has a start” is an art installation composed of 25 prints. Yiyi Wang tries to use the repetitiveness of printmaking as an independent language, allowing this work to break away from the size and display prescriptions of traditional printmaking. By hanging the prints in a 5 x 5 matrix, she turns the two dimensional prints into a three dimensional spatial installation. This series depicts images of a Mobius strip, produced through deconstruction and observation of its geometry from different angles. An installed video includes the moving image of these 25 views in order. If the viewer immerses themselves in this array of prints, they will discover that they are seeing the deconstructed subject from an invisible track and meandering on a single Mobius strip. By breaking the fourth wall, Yiyi Wang builds a latent construct of time and space of the cyclic process that blurs the boundary between print and reality.
In this high-tech era, Yiyi Wang chooses to look for primitive, low-tech artistic expression, contemplating the relativism of the ideas of past, present, and future. Ancient printmaking technology was once considered to have belonged to the future, just as technology now and in the future is due one day to become ancient relics, on and on. Yiyi Wang tried to escape from quotidian situations, to find a balance between opposing forces, achieving a calm state of mind through the abstract nature of the physical world. This allowed her to both place her work in relationship with mental and bodily anxiety about the origin of life and other issues while creating a sense of neutrality.
“An end has a start” project will circulate indefinitely in countless subsequent printings, onwards through time.
Artist / Yiyi Wang (b.1994)
Yiyi Wang received a BFA from Pratt Institute. She currently lives and works in New York.
Curator / Yiyao Tang (b.1996)
Yiyao Tang is currently pursuing a Master of Design Studies in Art, Design, and the Public Domain at the Harvard University. She received a BFA from Pratt Institute and she lives and works in New York City, Boston, and Shanghai.
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