“Mienophone“
54*28*22cm, glass, multi-media installation
Zhé Wang & Daniel Heitz, 2021 /2025
Zhé’s recent works have mainly focused on language, surveillance capitalism, self-consciousness, and observation of human emotional activities, embodying her critique of consensus derived from language and ideology, and her contemplation of the potential political implications behind human mental activities that are based on cognition and sensual experiences.
Featured works released 2016–2025
room installation with projection and sound, size flexible, 2021
video by Zhe Wang,
more works please go to http://zzzzzzzzzwwwwwww.com/
54*28*22cm, glass, multi-media installation, Zhé Wang & Daniel Heitz, 2021 /2025
The series of Tales present fable stories the artist created, in the classical Chinese structure. #01 is using symmetric Chinese characters. #02 is using the oracle script- an early form of Chinese script.
Though for non-Chinese speakers, it’s impossible to understand. This is even difficult for native Chinese speakers to understand. Because nowadays classical Chinese is no longer popular, but only as a subject in the school. And people have to translate the classical Chinese into modern Chinese to understand.
The work shows not only the absurdity of the stories, but also the aesthetics of the character itself.
Chapter 1
a long time ago, in the Mountain East
there was a clear fountainhead
a guy called Zhe, farmed hundreds acres of land there
he was farming everyday in the mountain
to feed all his friends
all the friend, they drank tea in the garden and did nothing
Zhe felt tired, but nothing changed
one day, a big flood came
all the crop was ruined
Zhe cried. "Why does the God not love me!"
Chapter 2
Zhe went to the witch to ask for help
the witch told Zhe to go to the Mountain West
there Zhe found a yellow Monster
then he fed it with liquorice. it turned into a blue Monster
the Monster ate Zhe
but Zhe wasn’t dead, instead he became a immortal
Zhe rode on the Monster and went back to the Mountain East
all the friends were standing still and shocked
they hadn’t eaten for days and all lost a lot weight. even their faces were concave
one said, "if you are still not back, we will all be dead!"
Zhe said, "there will be a big explosion in Universe
the sun will meet the moon and there will be an eye in the sky
after a storm comes a calm"
Chapter 3
one day after
what Zhe said all came true
everything was back to nice again
all the friends were very happy and drank tea again in the garden
Zhe rode on the Monster, left the Mountain East to the Mountain West
held a banquet with 800 people. so the Mountain West stood out to the Gods
then 6 Celestial Beasts came, offered Zhe their meat
Zhe gave the meat to all the people and they all became immortals too which called the 800 Saints
Chapter 4
Zhe rode the Monster, flew to the sky
all people said, "it can not be true!"
then ruined Zhe’s farm and drank tea in the garden
THE END
Video, 7'22'', HD, 2021
video by Zhe Wang,
more works please go to http://zzzzzzzzzwwwwwww.com/
Video, 17’44’’, 2018
4 channels video installation, loop, 2016
4-channel video installation, loop, 2016
The series of Tales present fable stories the artist created, in the classical Chinese structure. #01 is using symmetric Chinese characters. #02 is using the oracle script- an early form of Chinese script.
Though for non-Chinese speakers, it’s impossible to understand. This is even difficult for native Chinese speakers to understand. Because nowadays classical Chinese is no longer popular, but only as a subject in the school. And people have to translate the classical Chinese into modern Chinese to understand.
The work shows not only the absurdity of the stories, but also the aesthetics of the character itself.
Chapter 1
a long time ago, in the Mountain East
there was a clear fountainhead
a guy called Zhe, farmed hundreds acres of land there
he was farming everyday in the mountain
to feed all his friends
all the friend, they drank tea in the garden and did nothing
Zhe felt tired, but nothing changed
one day, a big flood came
all the crop was ruined
Zhe cried. "Why does the God not love me!"
Chapter 2
Zhe went to the witch to ask for help
the witch told Zhe to go to the Mountain West
there Zhe found a yellow Monster
then he fed it with liquorice. it turned into a blue Monster
the Monster ate Zhe
but Zhe wasn’t dead, instead he became a immortal
Zhe rode on the Monster and went back to the Mountain East
all the friends were standing still and shocked
they hadn’t eaten for days and all lost a lot weight. even their faces were concave
one said, "if you are still not back, we will all be dead!"
Zhe said, "there will be a big explosion in Universe
the sun will meet the moon and there will be an eye in the sky
after a storm comes a calm"
Chapter 3
one day after
what Zhe said all came true
everything was back to nice again
all the friends were very happy and drank tea again in the garden
Zhe rode on the Monster, left the Mountain East to the Mountain West
held a banquet with 800 people. so the Mountain West stood out to the Gods
then 6 Celestial Beasts came, offered Zhe their meat
Zhe gave the meat to all the people and they all became immortals too which called the 800 Saints
Chapter 4
Zhe rode the Monster, flew to the sky
all people said, "it can not be true!"
then ruined Zhe’s farm and drank tea in the garden
THE END
video installation, loop, 2017, Bremen, Germany