Gravity photography, Dimensions variable “I Am an Actress Today”
Wu Meng’s work consists of the performance video installation “Sad Clown” and four photographs titled “Gravity.” She tries to involve women in public issues, hoping they will poetically transform from caterpillars to butterflies. Meng also explores how vulnerable women resist and survive when in the public eye. Curator Anke Haarmann notes, “Wu Meng creates works using clothes, which are symbols of the transition from the human body and the private to the environment and the public. Her performance pieces involve real life, some take place in alleys and other public places.” The work “Sad Clown” in this exhibition is a recording of a performance piece. The sentences on these pieces of clothing pertain to social issues as well as daily hidden communication. In “Gravity,” each piece of clothing represents the state of living in a weightless place outside the city. At the same time, she uses photographic records of moments to try to find the issue itself and its development in society.
