Viewing Yan Wang Preston rewrites art history and contests power in dazzling, giant photographs
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
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Above After ‘To Add a Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995’, 2023. Still Photographs.
Above Pullharder 013
Above Yuan Making the Red Circle 2011
Above After ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818’, 2022.
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
Above After ‘Olympia, 1863’, 2023
Above After ‘To Add a Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, 1995’, 2023. Still Photographs.
Above Pullharder 013
Above Yuan Making the Red Circle 2011
Above After ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818’, 2022.
Three Easier Pieces
Messums
24 April-25 May 2024
The Chinese-British photographer Yan Wang Preston presents a new body of work that has been three years in the making for her second solo exhibition at Messums on Cork Street. Titled Three Easier Pieces, the exhibition sees the artist restage three iconic historical artworks in large-scale photographs: Manet’s Olympia; Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich and To Add a Metre to an Anonymous Mountain, a collaborative work organised by artist Zhang Huan. Wang Preston reimagines these works in thoughtful and provocative ways, reversing roles to ask questions about where we are in British society today when it comes to migrant and marginalised bodies.
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24 April 2024 — 25 May 2024
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