Wei Wang

This series of sculptures referenced Bernini's sculptures Apollo and Daphne. My main idea is the conservation of energy in nature. As long as time is extended indefinitely and after countless material exchanges, humans will be completely integrated with nature. Therefore, sculpture can be regarded as a condensed record of a period of time.

This series still continues the style of the previous works, using pure white as the main color, more new elements are also considered, such as the shape and size of the flower, the meaning of the flower language, and the facial expressions.  

In this series,I tried different lighting effects to simulate the movement of the sun and the changes in light and shadow to express the flow of time.

Causal loop, there is a theory called the paradox of fate and time travel. For example, a tale about a boy whose parents died in a fire after he was born. When the child grew up, he developed the ability to travel back to the past and decided to save his parents’ lives, he found that he had accidentally knocked over the candle, which eventually started the fire. Throughout the entire timeline, the accident occurred in both the past and the future. The cause of the paradox of destiny is an effect and an effect is a cause. 

We always think of time as moving in a single direction, just because our lives are so short. If time were circular, we could understand the existence of miracles that we cannot build today, such as the pyramids, because they are not in our past, but in the future.

This series mainly exists as an introduction to my sculptures, showing the process of conversion between people and flowers purely in the form of pictures. In this process, I tried two effects, color printing and black and white printing. The color set reflects the process of change through rainbow-like colors, while the black and white set allows people to focus more on the changes in the image itself.

A book is made from a piece of paper, which combines all the elements in my previous sculptures and serves as a poster for my work.

In this series, my works came from the exploration of the relationship between people and time. Human beings always want to control everything and claim that man is the measure of all things. However, time is fair. People eat mushrooms when they are alive, but when they die, people melt into the soil and become the food for fungus. In the pictures, you can see the two elements clearly, mushrooms and hands. In my mind, the hands are the most flexible parts of our bodies, and we use them to hold onto things, to connect with the outside world, which is also a sign that we want to control our surroundings. We feel confident that we have time, because our memories are usually regarded as evidences of existence of time. Unfortunately, in the book called In Time and Free Will, Bergson mentions that human memory fragments are generated from the process of recollection to perception, from which he puts forward the concept. The process from recollection to perception tends to be triggered when something is seen or heard at the moment, and the process is not always the same. People are likely to bring the color of fantasy into their own preferences for a more vivid and enriched representation, and finally present an individualized world. In fact, time never belongs to anyone, we are just time travelers.