Family Portrait (Altar)
Mixed media installation
Dimensions varieble
2023-2026
Part of Clay Matters at Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp
Jun 27 - Aug 29, 2026
Pei-Hsuan Wang explores how identity is shaped by migration, family history, and cultural transmission. Starting from the diasporic experience of her family’s migration from Taiwan to the United States, she weaves personal memory together with East Asian mythology, folklore, and geopolitical reflection. Her sculptures and installations bring together narratives of origin, transformation, and kinship in a visual language where each object carries symbolic meaning. In Family Portrait (Altar), Wang refers to the altar as a site where memory, ritual, and generations of a family converge. The installation is populated by twelve ceramic zodiac sculptures that function simultaneously as symbolic figures and offerings, evoking a cyclical understanding of time and cosmos. Rotating ribbons, inspired by traditional incense burners, introduce movement and the invisible connection between past, present, and future. Together, the ceramic objects form a space of care, memory, and exchange, linking family history to broader questions of continuity, change, and cultural identity.
Clay Matters features:
Johan Creten
Justine Grillet
Cameron Jamie
Luca Monterastelli
Valgerður Sigurðardóttir
Clara Spilliaert
Koen Theys
Patrick Van Caeckenbergh
Pei-Hsuan Wang