Evelyn Taocheng Wang 王伊芙苓韜程

Working in drawing, installation, performance, video and photography, Evelyn Taocheng Wang creates works that explore notions of immigration, belonging, gender and class politics. She approaches such topics with a sense of lighthearted humour and poetry, deeply contextualised by the references from centuries of art history and literature. Her works present a case of traditional Chinese calligraphy and paintings meeting art-historical “Dutchness” and “Germanness”, a combination that follows the artist’s personal migration history and identity. Wang’s practice traces a continuous questioning of the notion of authenticity: she puts “fake” Chinese authenticity stamps on her rice drawings; and she does not conceal linguistic mistakes and corrections. The seemingly established structures become penetrated by the constellation of perspectives coming from “being in the middle” of East and West.