‘My presence here.
I need the ability to convey my utter amazement into a sentence at my presence here, while also conveying the smell and texture of the skins, everything I agreed with or disagreed with at this moment.’
About Yuzhuo Wang
I’m an interdisciplinary textile artist. I come from China, born in 1999, and I am based in Oslo, Norway. I graduated from KHIO (Oslo National Academy of the Arts) master's degree in costume design. My work is about materials, body-based soft sculpture, art performance, and collaborating with stage-based artists. Working in the progress is a key to my practice, I use painting, and performance as my props to complete the show.
In my previous art practice, I created new projects on the same topics over and over again, and every time it brought new sides to the same topics. For example, I used dolls as a metaphor to ‘construct’ a complete female body. In the Chinese calligraphy project, I came up with the ‘tactile sign language’ to push the boundaries of communication and reflected on the communication between generations in East-Asian society. And in the project ‘The Prescription of Intimacy’, I collaborated with musicians, dancers, and choreographers to create a space that allows intimacy to happen in public…Different features of the material form their language. As a textile artist, it’s my privilege to shape the material and form it, give it narrative, and express it in the process.
Yuzhuo Wang 2024
I’m an interdisciplinary textile artist. I come from China, born in 1999, and I am based in Oslo, Norway. I graduated from KHIO (Oslo National Academy of the Arts) master's degree in costume design. My work is about materials, body-based soft sculpture, art performance, and collaborating with stage-based artists. Working in the progress is a key to my practice, I use painting, and performance as my props to complete the show.
In my previous art practice, I created new projects on the same topics over and over again, and every time it brought new sides to the same topics. For example, I used dolls as a metaphor to ‘construct’ a complete female body. In the Chinese calligraphy project, I came up with the ‘tactile sign language’ to push the boundaries of communication and reflected on the communication between generations in East-Asian society. And in the project ‘The Prescription of Intimacy’, I collaborated with musicians, dancers, and choreographers to create a space that allows intimacy to happen in public…Different features of the material form their language. As a textile artist, it’s my privilege to shape the material and form it, give it narrative, and express it in the process.
Yuzhuo Wang 2024