Glasgow School of Fine Art Sculpture & Environmental Art

Xiangru Wang

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Wang Xiangru 王香入 (b.1999) is an artist based in Glasgow and Chongqing. Xiangru investigates the experience and perception of the real on spatial and temporal scales with reference to mysticism and individual narratives. Incorporating moving images, sculpture, and fiction, Xiangru explores reality construction and reconstruct an atlernative reality dimension rooted in magic and intuitive experience to resist current Technic-based reality.Inhabiting in the role of the storyteller, she uses fiction as a method to explore social constructions and proposing a temporary passage. Her work often directs towards ambiguity and speculation to achieve experiential ineffability.

 

 

Contact
xiangru.wang@hotmail.com
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Works
Mid-day Intruders
HYP0
0,1,10,100,1000
If I look closer (on a summer day)
Hey are you okay?
Maybe it’s a paradox
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Mid-day Intruders

The project Mid-day Intruders sets a fictional narrative as the thread: a group of travelers rambles in a landscape, presumably in Scotland. Their journey reaches an end when they witness their own image in a gallery in Glasgow.

Fictional Narrative of Mid-day intruders

Soundscape for Mid-day Intruders

This soundscape is part of the project Mid-day Intruders. I use field-recording, generated sound, and acoustic guitar sound to construct soundscape. The soundscape attempt to deliver multiple layers of the travelers' journey - besides field recordings that coordinate to the real-time, I added memory and fictional layer using man-made sounds.

Installed View of Mid-day Intruders

Installed View of Mid-day Intruders

Video Stills from the Installation

HYP0

Video Stills of HYP0

Single channel video work, 3:27
If light is the passage. A hypothesis.

0,1,10,100,1000

Combining computer-generated graphics and real-life footage, the video 0,1,10,100,1000 experiments with world-making through collison of sound and image.

Linguistic elements are left out to allow the flow of intuitive experience.

single channel video, 7:03

Video Still

If I look closer (on a summer day)

Part I - Looping Summer Day

single channel videowork, 03:30. A continuous loop of an imagined summer day by the sea.

Part II - If I look closer

two channel video work, 01:02. On the left is a fabulation, on the right is the mechanism of fabulation.

Hey are you okay?

Video Still

single channel video, 04:04

Maybe it’s a paradox

Maybe it's a Paradox

Installed view

Installed detail