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Christine Wang's canvases manifest fleeting outbursts of collective creativity. In her works she deals with cyberculture, internet phenomena and digital imagery. Her acrylic colors shimmer like RGB, they transfer pixels back into physical space.
The meme (from the Greek mimeme) is itself an imitation, its reproduction is part of the narration. Pictures are overlaid with texts, in humorous provocation [...]
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Christine Wang's canvases manifest fleeting outbursts of collective creativity. In her works she deals with cyberculture, internet phenomena and digital imagery. Her acrylic colors shimmer like RGB, they transfer pixels back into physical space.
The meme (from the Greek mimeme) is itself an imitation, its reproduction is part of the narration. Pictures are overlaid with texts, in humorous provocation they strive for Lulz, the merciful malicious joy of the users.
Supposedly simplified, these pictorial worlds of Web 2.0 are placed in ever new contexts, appropriating the most up-to-date narratives and developing their own complexity under the speed of perception of a moment.
The “I” in Christine Wang's paintings is confused and abject, slipping between a political subject and cog in the capitalist machine. Is the voice of the “I” the voice of the artist, the viewer, the painting, or the celebrity? The ambiguity of the works points to a world where subjective desires are produced by racist and capitalist structures.
"I am inspired by my own feelings of guilt, greed, and shame. These negative emotions point to ideological paradigms that I have inherited, internalized, or reflect. (…) I make the values of society visible by underscoring my own embarrassing thoughts."
Christine Wang, born in 1985 in Washington D.C., lives and works in San Francisco.
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