Wang Sishun
王思顺b.1979
New Galerie
Long March Space
Made In Gallery
Truth - L'abbaye - Booklet
Constellation Catalog
Wang Sishun was born in 1979 in Wuhan, the capital city of the central province of Hubei. He currently lives and works in Beijing. In 2005, he graduated from the department of sculpture of the Hubei Institute of Fine Art, and in 2008 received his MA in Fine Arts from the department of sculpture of the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing.
Wang Sishun’s work examines ‘the boundless abyss in our limited bodies’ through the reinterpretation and transformation of time and matter. He mainly focuses on acts of translation or transmutation from one state of matter to another, and from one form to another. In Necessary Labor Time (2008), coins were melted and cast into one large metal ingot before being shaved down to a needle. The residual dust was used to fill an hourglass. Truth, Wang Sishun’s first exhibition in Paris, took place at New Galerie in 2014 with the support of the John Dodelande Collection. The artist made a six-week journey from Beijing to Paris (a distance of 12,000 kilometres), carrying with him a live flame that was a kind of relic of a devastating fire.
His solo exhibitions include 2016 Apocalypse, Long March Space, Beijing, China (2016), and Truth, New Galerie, Paris. Group exhibitions include: Free Realm – Beijing 798 – Guiyang Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guiyang 798 Art Center, China (2017); A Beautiful Disorder, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood, UK (2016); On Curbstone Jewels and Cobblestones, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin (2016); Inventing Ritual, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2015); the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia (2015); Essential Matters, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey (2015); The BANK Show, Vive le Capital, BANK, Shanghai (2015); Harmonious Society – Asia Triennial Manchester 14, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester (2014); Second CAFAM Biennale: The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing (2014).