Look Back, 2023, video, colour
'Look Back', loops footage of a Mongolian bull in the outskirts of Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia and Wang’s hometown, seen from the main highway. The plain directness of the motionless bull as an agrarian symbol for the politically charged landscape of Inner Mongolia, being defined by Han Chinese as well as Mongolian cultures, delivers a monument of stability and local identify.
Bull Washer, 2024, video, colour, sound.
Through the video work 'Bull Washer', the act of erasure is explored through performative painterly gestures of a brush wiping the snow from the walls at Teufelsberg in Berlin. The site of Teufelsberg is a non-natural hill created in the twenty years following the end of the Second World War, consisting of rubble moved from the destroyed buildings of West Berlin. The site itself is unique in Germany as the rubble covers the incomplete construction of a Nazi military college designed by Albert Speer which the allies were unable to destroy with explosives and thus chose to cover with the debris. The video sequences the alternation between aggressive sweeping of snow from the main walls to unveil its underlying structures, contrasted by the intimate stillness in the woods and the gentle movements of taking off layers of snow from frozen blossoms and twigs nearby.