Jiaying Wang

My work investigates the emotional complexities inherent to my transnational identity. I question the paradoxical place at the intersection of longing and belonging, interior and exterior, rootedness and uprootedness. As I navigate between nostalgia for the “native” culture of the past and search for affinity in the adopted culture of the present, I use material processes to forge a zone of stability and comfort – a “homecoming” in disguise. Mundane objects act as transitional souvenirs that manifest my personal history and serve as indexes of multiple belongings. Through digital media, casting and site-interventions, my art practice explores the ability of materials and spaces to hold memories; as well as how these ephemeral states and precarious placements could be read, decoded and repositioned in time.