Evelyn Taocheng Wang "An Organic Day" （KayokoYuki）

Evelyn Taocheng Wang "An Organic Day"

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Evelyn Taocheng Wang

Evelyn Taocheng Wang, a Chinese-born artist based in the Netherlands, explores a variety of media, including painting, drawing, calligraphy, performance, and installation. Her work intricately fuses fragmented and paradoxical narratives through the lenses of memory and imagination. As an immigrant from China based in the Netherlands, Evelyn's art is deeply rooted in her social context, addressing overarching themes such as gender, belonging, and cultural identity. Confronting these often controversial themes, Evelyn avoids simplistic binary oppositions like male/female or Western/Eastern. Instead, she approaches these issues with original and poetic humor, continuously engaging with the fundamental question of "what is the self.”

The exhibition "An Organic Day" comprises works using different materials and techniques, including oil paintings, and drawings on paper and silk. It inherently reveals fundamental differences in art history between Western and Eastern paintings. However, Evelyn doesn't present these differences in a confrontational manner but expands them to experience the potential understanding of diverse artistic identities and materials.

Pieces like the two "Dutch Window" and "Wild Black Berry Picker" may appear as traditional oil paintings on canvas, but Evelyn effortlessly transforms their texture and visual perception into the serene appearance of ink paintings on paper.

Many of Evelyn's works blend transcendental and profound expressions with seemingly unrelated texts, merging emotional, poetic, and autobiographical elements. Playing with the concept of identity as a multifaceted phenomenon, she connects personal experiences with thoughts on art and art history. Confronting the theme of "what is the self," Evelyn questions the legitimacy of segregating different forms of expression while actively embracing their coexistence.