Wang Rui @Salt Projects, Beijing

A breeze from the cyber realm can either make you feel eased or dazed. Dashing on the highway of information under the disguise of a virtual identity does not mean one can perfectly vanish at the end of data and calculation. On the contrary, this travel creates new lives. A member of the new generation that grew up under the Internet, Wang Rui chose to find a balanced existence in the endless information, as she immersed herself in the novelty in Internet-surfing and embraced every true happening in the reality with further sincerity and sensitivity.

Negative consequences are obviously present when one is connected to the Internet bodily and heartily, as each search becomes passive and predictable data, overindulged searching numbed our senses and the trapping of information blurs fiction and reality, but that does not hold Wang Rui from pursuing and creating her own algorithm. “You weren't supposed to be able to get there you know” is a wall slogan that the artist found online. Not being able to tell its authenticity, the slogan resembles a kind reminder from a prophet, insinuating an unknown secret and the danger of exploring desire. The ever-changing cyber images become the artist’s way of observing and documenting the fragment of our spacetime. In her solo exhibition at Salt Projects, Wang Rui used a witty way to construct a transformation route for self-identity, emotion, and desire, presenting her fresh perception for the real world based on her experience in the cyber realm.