Faculty of Art

Sculpture/Installation

Wu Jing

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This spatial installation consists of five interconnected yet independent pieces, each reimagining and transforming everyday bathroom objects through formal and material interventions, rendering familiar items strange and unsettling. Thus, the bathroom has transformed into a pivotal space for delving into the profound constructs of human identity, serving as a nexus where intimate rituals converge with entrenched cultural norms. This work highlights the fragile and fluid nature of the boundaries defining human identity. By confronting viewers with everyday objects transformed into provocative embodiments of contradiction and ambiguity, the work invites us to question the certainty of our constructed selves. It reveals identity not as fixed or inherent but as continuously negotiated through our interactions with the material and cultural environment.

“The moment my ass kisses the toilet seat, my world begins to blur into ambiguity.We long for each other, craving for that moment to unfold.Brewing, brewing, brewing!At last! I surrender everything within me—And it, gently, kisses me back with tears.What a magnificent instant.A kiss between purity and filth,a dance of civilization and savagery,an embrace of life and death.Only here am I truly myself.I love shitting.”