Meet the Artist
Wu
Jing
“Consider a physically disabled yet mentally healthy person and a physically healthy yet mentally unwell individual. The unequal application of power arises from society’s superficially different reactions to the same fundamental issue. Discrimination against physically disabled individuals emerges from an exaggerated focus on visible differences: by magnifying physical deviations, society excludes these individuals from the normative concept of “human.” Conversely, discrimination against those with mental illness stems from anxiety over the invisibility of their condition. Lacking tangible sensory proof, certain subjects choose to ignore or deny psychological differences to preserve the experiential unity of their concept of “humanity.” Both acts—gazing and ignoring—though seemingly opposite, represent two expressions of the same underlying mechanism: reaffirming subjective identity through exclusion. Ultimately, this construct fractures the stable boundary between subject and object, revealing existence itself as neither binary nor static, but rather as a continually evolving process, shaped through bodily experience, language, culture, and temporality—a complex, fluid existence resistant to simple categorization.”

Wu Jing (b. Anhui, China, currently in Toronto, Canada) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates the boundaries of subjectivity, identity, and cultural norms. Living and working in Canada, Wu draws from her experiences of migration to examine fluidity and conflict within cultural identities. Grounded in psychoanalysis, psychology, and posthumanist philosophy, his work critically examines the intricate and often ambiguous relations between self and other.Through material and symbolic transformations of everyday objects, Wu employs processes of deconstruction and reassembly to expose hidden social structures and power dynamics embedded in daily life. Beyond abstract philosophical inquiries, his artistic practice sensitively engages the tensions between social realities and personal experiences, challenging established categories and revealing the fragility and fluidity inherent in human subjectivity.
Beijing city University
photography
Major Transferred, 2021
Drawing&Painting Photography clay sculpture
2024, Glomeration
Gallery1313, Toronto, ON
2024, RAW
Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022, The show of shame
BarOrwell, Toronto, ON
2022, Iives apart
OCAD university

