Chao Wang

Artist Statement

As human beings are living in a high technology society nowadays, human activities affect the whole environment. In the pre-scientific era, people explained some situations through narratives of the supernatural like fairy tales. From this point in time, Wang thinks science fiction is a kind of subconscious, all-sensory response to the existing world. In most science fiction, people like to create the majority of science fiction stories that convey large visions of artificial intelligence. But for humans, a large part of the threat doesn’t come from the universal, the giant, and unknown things, but rather from the tiny, microscopic, and seemingly insignificant microorganisms.

Nowadays, people seem less concerned about the future and more concerned with the present. However, the environmental problems that we face today, such as global warming and lack of resources affect not just this generation but those that follow.

Therefore, Wang explores the crossovers between painting and science fiction. From the point of view of the microorganism enhanced by artificial intelligence. From the negative space to the positive space. From the familiar element in nature to the object created from the imagination. The idea of science fiction should not be limited to high technology with future scenarios, but also from small little things that focus on the current moment.