Xiaowei R. Wang's New Exhibition at / (Slash) Art Gallery
Alum Xiaowei R. Wang is an artist, writer, organizer and coder whose multidisciplinary work sits at the intersection of public art, tech, social and environmental justice. The group exhibition Fictions of Presence, curated by Dorothy R. Santos, features four artists, Lee Blalock, Abram Stern, Chelsea Thompto, and Xiaowei R. Wang, and explores how the development of algorithmic systems, software, and machines can be used to create alternative modes of presence.
From the press release:
The works in Fictions of Presence are meant to reflect the spectrum of how bodies are understood and mediated through space, time, language, and speculative worlds and imaginings. This exhibition serves as a way for Blalock, Stern, Thompto, and Wang’s artworks to be in conversation about how we understand how evidentiary proof of phantasms and illusions suggest presence in ways we least expect. Each artist foregrounds the stories and narratives of what has been lost, misread, and obscured.
The exhibition will be on view at / (Slash) Art Gallery in San Francisco through December 14.
Read more about the exhibition here.