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Artist | Frank WANG Yefeng "The House of the Solitary"

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Frank WANG Yefeng"The House of the Solitary"

Curator : Rachel Vera Steinberg

Duration : 2023. 12. 02 - 2024. 01. 28

Venue : Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York

🔗https://www.smackmellon.org/exhibition/frank-wang-yefeng-the-house-of-the-solitary/

The House of the Solitary extends from a series of video animations created by Frank WANG Yefeng in the summer of 2020 and reimagined as an uncanny domestic installation for this exhibition, combining poems, 3D rendering, texts sculpted in VR, and distorted soundtracks of airline on-hold music. Sparked by the artist’s unexpected and prolonged lockdown experience in Berlin, the exhibition quietly remarks on the mental paradigm shifts caused by the global isolation of the 2020 pandemic. This series was previously exhibited in Frank Wang Yefeng's solo exhibition “On Hold" in Vanguard Gallery in 2021, when it was exhibited again this time, the artist changed the presentation form and the materials of some works, which produced a different effect in the exhibition atmosphere.

The House of the Solitary–Moka Pot

Dual-channel video, color, sound

3D animation, VR sculpture, poetry

02’04’’｜2020

©Smack Mellon

Photo: Etienne Frossard

Installed on suspended monitors, the animations depict non-human everyday objects, such as a Kinder egg, a stovetop espresso pot, and a pack of cigarettes. Each transforms into a character that repeatedly inflates and deflates via computer dynamic simulations, physically fluctuating between states of mundane and strange. Accompanying the objects are poems written by the artist then sculpted into 3D-rendered text that borrows the visual information of the respective object. In the background, the music elongates time into a taunting and perpetual loop.

The House of the Solitary—The Phrases III

Computer assisted digital photography

55 x 55 cm, 120 x 120 cm | 2020

Carriers of the heightened sense of empathy and ambivalence distinct to the moment they were created, the characters are markers of the interstitial existence of this extended pause, which fundamentally altered perceptions of a forthcoming future. The environment captures the mundane ways that lived-reality seemed to pull apart from itself, splitting known categories into fragments of in-betweenness. Although rooted in a moment in the recent past, the exhibition encapsulates the subtle exhaustion and absurdity that bears heavily on how the status quo continues to operate.

The Cell Phone

Photopolymer 3D printing, cement casting, QR code

15 x 9 x 6.5 cm | 2020

©Smack Mellon

Photo: Etienne Frossard

INSTALLATION VIEWS

Panel Discussion

©Smack Mellon

Photo: Etienne Frossard

From left to right:：

Natasha Chuk、Qianfan Gu、Barbara Pollack (Moderator)

🔗https://www.smackmellon.org/program/panel-discussion-frank-wang-yefeng/

ABOUT THE ARTIST

王业丰

Frank Wang Yefeng

Frank WANG Yefeng (b. 1984, Shanghai) is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and digital nomad situated in-between New York City and Shanghai. Yefeng earned his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. His projects have been featured in exhibitions internationally, including the BRIC Biennial (SH, CN), the OCAT Biennial (SZ, CN), the WRONG Biennale (USA), City Project of the 14th Shanghai Biennale (SH, CN), The Armory Show (NY, US), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art (NY, USA), Times Square (NY, USA), Denver Theater District (CO, USA), Gasworks London (LDN, UK), Jeju Museum of Contemporary Art (Jeju, KR), Pylon Lab (DRS, DE), Tai Kwun Contemporary (HK, CN), Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing (BJ, CN), Shanghai K11 Museum (SH, CN), Duolun Museum of Modern Art (SH, CN), etc. Yefeng has also been awarded solo exhibitions, residencies, and fellowships at K11 Art Foundation x ArtReview (WH, CN), Smack Mellon (NY, USA), International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) (NY, USA), New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation (NY, USA), Pratt Institute (NY, USA), Asia Art Archive in America (NY, USA), MacDowell (NH, USA), and Vermont Studio Center (VT, USA), among others.

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ABOUT Smack Mellon

Smack Mellon is a nonprofit arts organization located in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Smack Mellon’s mission is to nurture and support emerging, under-recognized mid-career and women artists in the creation and exhibition of new work, by providing exhibition opportunities, studio workspace, and access to equipment and technical assistance for the realization of ambitious projects.

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