Wang Rui’s artwork Kappa (2023) is featured in the group exhibition "Longing: Anthem of Digital Sadness" at Guangdong Contemporary Art Centre, Guangzhou.If we are dating data daily, someone who gradually gets lost in a virtual environment has always been longing for a chance to contact the real world. Wang Rui creates Kappa (2023), consisting of [15-25] sets of leaf-heart objects that fall here and there on the Prussian blue carpet, which presents a series of protocols that connect cyberspace with the physical space, mind, and body. Unlike her digital drawings on a computer, the artist’s recent practice focuses on the truth perceived and embedded in materials. Leaves drawn by pencil situate in a reality, where paper cut-outs look as fragile as withered leaves. Heart-shaped faces are softly and sincerely wrapped in the texture of tin, which records the artist’s acts and emotions meticulously.
2023.05.21-2024.07.21
