Ziping Wang is days away from making her Berlin debut with Act Normal, a new solo exhibition at Peres Projects. Known for her intensely fragmented and kaleidoscopic paintings, Wang explores the complexity of modern visual culture, offering a much-needed meditation on the age of information overload.
The exhibition welcomes viewers into the artist’s delightfully graphic world. The old and new become one in an interplay of brand logos, children’s toys, old master still lifes and Chinese decorative motifs, all of which are overlaid atop a hand-painted transparency grid. Christened by the smooth touch of a digital brushstroke, this interplay of cultural signifiers highlights a fascination with the deceptive malleability of images, exploring the blurred lines between reality and its digital reinterpretation.
In the abundance and anxiety of a chronically connected world, Wang emerges with a confident clarity. Her rich, collage-like compositions forge a cryptology of their own, akin to the activist codes and internet slang she draws from. Animated by a sense of future nostalgia, Act Normal happily embraces the chaos with open arms and in turn, invites us to surrender to a dizzying ecosystem of images.
The exhibition will be on view in Berlin from November 29, 2024 through February 7, 2025.
Peres Projects
Karl-Marx-Allee 82,
10243 Berlin, Germany
