Treading in Sludge

MadeIn Gallery is excited to present artist Wang Jianwei’s solo exhibition “Treading in Sludge” on November 7, 2022. Curated by Lu Xinghua, the exhibition features sixteen paintings, installations, and sculptures that reflect the artist’s aesthetics on the Anthropocene.

As a barrel of fine wine aged for four decades in the vineyard of Chinese contemporary art, Wang has traversed every evolutionary stage of this art world under various climate conditions and borne the brunt of its major events. He has achieved symbiosis with it on a large scale and woven an intricate network of art activists. Nevertheless, he is still placing bets, still morphing despite perils, still deterritorializing and reterritorializing, outstripping us at every turn. Like a fungus he lives, thinks, and creates, constantly cornering himself within limits, sustaining volatile reassemblies with courtly elegance, and willingly landing himself in disputes. Through art he braces us for and gives us a prior taste of what will surely be our common, insecure life and leads us to thrive and shine in the storms of the Anthropocene.