Pei-Hsuan Wang

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Taiwan-born artist Pei-Hsuan Wang's installations are brimming with personal and cultural references. They are imbued with the spirits of her family ties across generations. An intense work process involving repetitive motions of molding and pinching clay, focused drawing, symbol and material re-appropriation and assemblage, crystallizes in meticulous mark-making embedding wishes and prayers into the works. The result is a layered installation in three parts of which each element could be scrutinized for its meaning but which animated qualities are also immediately palpable. They speak of the power of intergenerational bonds, and the value of cherishing and sharing stories. They are an ode to family ties and kinships across time and space.


Courtesy of the artist and Ballon Rouge, with invaluable support from EKWC.


Installations commissioned by STUK, House for Dance, Image & Sound in the context of At the Still Point of the Turning World (2024):

I. Glazed ceramic, stained glass, steel, aluminum, mosquito net, paint, vacuum formed acrylic, printed pattern based on the artist’s mother’s drawing, wood, light fixture, mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2024

・Ahma Holding Up The Sky With One Hand, stoneware, glaze, luster, 40 x 70 x 40 cm, 2023

・Sleeping Papaya (Levi in Blue), stoneware, glaze, 26 x 12 x 14 cm, 2023

・Four Bats for Luck, stained glass window, steel, window dimensions 40 x 40 cm, 2024

II. Glazed ceramic, stained glass, insect screen, paint, framed drawing, found objects, rice, ginger, dried dates, printed pattern based on the artist’s mother’s drawing, wood, light fixtures, mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2024

・Mother As Griffon Carrying Our Family Name On Her Back, stoneware, glaze, 68 x 61 x 30 cm, 2023

・Happiness I, stained glass window, 40 x 40 cm, 2024

・Happiness II, stained glass window, 40 x 40 cm, 2024

・Mother and Lychee Tree, graphite on paper, 19 x 21.5 cm, 2023

・Bowl in the Form of a Mouse, stoneware, glaze, 40 x 22 x 28 cm, 2023

・Bowl in the Form of a Rabbit, stoneware, glaze, 25 x 20  x 18 cm, 2023

III. Glazed ceramic, traditional Taiwanese plastic bowls for newly weds, paint, printed pattern based on the artist’s drawing of Disney’s Mulan, wood, mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2024

・Tree of Aunties, stoneware, glaze, 70 x 70 x 157 cm, 2023