WANG TUO
王拓
Wang Tuo (b. 1984, Changchun, China) interweaves Chinese modern history, cultural archives, fiction and mythology into speculative narratives. Equating his practice to novel writing, he stages an intervention in historical literary texts and cultural archives to formulate stories that blur the boundaries of time and space, facts and imagination. His work spans across film, performative elements, painting and drawing. The multidimensional chronologies he constructs, interspersed with conspicuous and hidden clues, expose the underlying historical and cultural forces at work within society. Embracing a uniquely Chinese hauntology, Wang proposes “pan-shamanization” as an entry point to unravel the suppressed and untreated memories of 20th century China. Through historical inquiry, Wang’s works, often unsettling and dramatic, disentangle collective unconsciousness and historical traumas. His more recent work critiques contemporary conditions of censorship, more specifically the tensions within the push and pull between artist and authority.
Wang has recent solo shows at UCCA, Beijing; Present Company, New York; Salt Project, Beijing; Taikang Space, Beijing, and recent group shows at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden- Baden; Queens Museum, New York; Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok; PSA, Shanghai; OCAT, Shenzhen & Shanghai; How Art Museum, Shanghai; Times Museum, Guangzhou; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. Wang Tuo was an Artist in Residence at the Queens Museum, New York from 2015 to 2017. He won the China Top Shorts Award and the Outstanding Art Exploration Award for Chinese Short Films in Beijing International Short Film Festival 2018. Wang Tuo is the winner of the Three Shadows Photography Award 2018 and the Youth Contemporary Art Wuzhen Award 2019. He was awarded a research residency at KADIST San Francisco as part of the OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Residency Program 2020.
王拓，1984年生于中国长春，在他的创作中，中国现代史、文化档案、小说及神话相互交织，形成虚构叙事。一如虚构写作，他在历史文本及档案记录中上演一幕幕介入性表演，模糊时间与空间、真实与想象的边界。王拓的创作横跨影像、表演与绘画，构建多维的事件谱系。他的作品中充斥着可见或不可见的线索，揭示着社会背后的历史及文化力量。王拓在作品中回应中国独特的「幽灵学」，提出以「泛萨满化」召唤中国二十世纪被压抑及忽视的记忆。他的创作时常以不安且戏剧性的手法探究历史，揭示集体无意识及历史创伤。王拓的近期创作批判当代审查机制，以及其中艺术家与执法者的紧张角力。
王拓近年在UCCA尤伦斯当代艺术中心，北京；Present Company，纽约；Salt Proiect，北京；泰康空间，北京举办了个展，并参加了在韩国国立现代美术馆，首尔；尤莉娅·施托含克收藏，杜塞尔多夫；巴登巴登国立美术馆，巴登巴登；皇后美术馆，纽约；Zarya 当代艺术中心，符拉迪沃斯托克；上海当代艺术博物馆，上海；OCAT，上海 / 深圳；昊美术馆，上海；广东时代美术馆，广州；国立台湾美术馆，台中等机构举办的群展。王拓曾为纽约皇后美术馆2015至2017年度驻馆艺术家，并于2018年获授“三影堂摄影奖”，同年获北京国际短片联展“杰出艺术探索奖”和“玲珑塔”短片奖，2019年获授青年当代艺术乌镇奖，2020 年获授旧金山卡蒂斯特支持的研究驻地。