Wang Tuo

  • Through film, performance, painting, and drawing, artist Wang Tuo interweaves disparate realities through archives, modern history, myth, and literature. The artist’s work is a powerful examination of modern Chinese history that untangles collective unconsciousness and historical trauma through glimpses into his protagonists’ troubled psyches. Wang’s speculative films excavate and revive archives as contexts in which to reproduce and evoke modern Chinese history and social reality. Intertwining multiple texts and contemporary narratives, Wang’s work ruminates on the universal connotations and historical complicity rooted in our subconscious and dramatic, absurd, yet powerless realities.

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Wailing Requiem, 2021 (still)
This artwork is licensed by KADIST for its programs, and is not part of the KADIST collection.
Tungus, 2021 (still)
This artwork is licensed by KADIST for its programs, and is not part of the KADIST collection.
Distorting Words, 2019 (still)
This artwork is licensed by KADIST for its programs, and is not part of the KADIST collection.
Smoke and Fire, 2018 (still)
This artwork is licensed by KADIST for its programs, and is not part of the KADIST collection.
Wang Tuo

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Through film, performance, painting, and drawing, artist Wang Tuo interweaves disparate realities through archives, modern history, myth, and literature. The artist’s work is a powerful examination of modern Chinese history that untangles collective unconsciousness and historical trauma through glimpses into his protagonists’ troubled psyches. Wang’s speculative films excavate and revive archives as contexts in which to reproduce and evoke modern Chinese history and social reality. Intertwining multiple texts and contemporary narratives, Wang’s work ruminates on the universal connotations and historical complicity rooted in our subconscious and dramatic, absurd, yet powerless realities.