Special Projects, Qingsong Wang, Bath House (2000) in P.S.
1 from May to Nov. 2002
Chinese artist Qingsong Wang's large-scale photographs are
influenced by the rapid change of cultural tastes and influx
of western fashion and products in "new China."
Bath House (2000) presents
a scene of nighttime revelers cavorting in a small pool littered
with discarded soda bottles and fruit floating in cloudy,
stagnant water. Upon closer inspection of this "orgy,"
the grimacing faces of the Asian women (varying in age from
older to very young) clustered around a lone cherubic man
suggest the double-sided consequences of material wealth and
personal freedom in contemporary society.
Qingsong Wang was born in Hubei Province, China, in 1966,
and graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu.
He currently lives and works in Bejing. Recent solo exhibitions
include "Eulogy of Life, Wang Fun Art Gallery, Bejing
(2002). Group exhibitions include Cross - Pressure, Finnish
Museum of Photography and Oulu City Museum, Finland (2001);
China Album, Nice Contemporary Art Museum, France (2001);
Construction / Hong Kong Conceptual Photography, Hong Kong
Arts Center (2001); Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global
Communications, Tribes Gallery, NY (2000); and Man + Space,
3rd Kwangju Biennale, Korea (2000).
Location: Floor 1, foyer. Selected by P.S.1 Director Alanna
Heiss.
This article is published on the website of www.ps1.org
in 2002.
