manifesto of fragility – A World of Endless Promise
WangShui
Hyphal Stream (Isle of Vitr.°.ous), 2022
2025
Oil on aluminium
Commission for the 16th edition of the Biennale de Lyon
Venue
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Lyon
Born 1986 in Texas, USA.
Based in New York, USA.
WangShui’s work explores the entanglement of human and machine consciousness. The large-scale panoramic painting Hyphal Stream, created for the Lyon Biennale, comes from the “Isle of Vitr.°.ous” series - an otherworldly landscape co-authored by the artist and Artificial intelligence. WangShui describes it as a “non-place that exists only in the gel between structures of perception”. Devised as an optic work, playing with detail and distance, transparency and opacity, this “machine painting” challenges traditional notions of authorship, landscape and scale.
With the support of Hight Art Gallery
With the kind collaboration of Enersens
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