Solo Show of Yiou Wang | 15.02.25 – 14.03.25

THE BLANC is pleased to announce Becoming Other, the first solo exhibition of artist Yiou Wang. As a multimedia artist, designer, and scenographer, Yiou’s artistic practice centers on worldbuilding that traverses the boundary between the physical and virtual realms. Blending motion capture, animation, immersive installations, mixed realities, and digital art prints, Yiou explores “ancient future myths” through a fluid, intuitive mode, unbound by traditional art disciplines. A former architect, Yiou constructs elaborate worlds from which myriad channels of storytelling emerge—immersive projections, interactive installations, digital art prints, video games, and live performances—spreading outward like a network of roots. THE BLANC is pleased to announce Becoming Other, the first North American solo exhibition of artist Yiou Wang. As a multimedia artist, designer, and scenographer, Yiou’s artistic practice centers on worldbuilding that traverses the boundary between the physical and virtual realms. Blending motion capture, animation, immersive installations, mixed realities, and digital art prints, Yiou explores “ancient future myths” through a fluid, intuitive mode, unbound by traditional art disciplines. A former architect, Yiou constructs elaborate worlds from which myriad channels of storytelling emerge—immersive projections, interactive installations, digital art prints, video games, and live performances—spreading outward like a network of roots. 

In Becoming Other, self and other become interchangeable through transfiguration. Yiou explores the metaphysical and morphological boundaries between self and other, seeking to map our relationship with the surroundings through a mythical lens. This exhibition presents audiences with the present instantiations of several of Yiou’s multi-year worldbuilding creations. At the intersection of myth, technology, and ecology, these artistic ecosystems branch and evolve throughout the exhibition space. 

In the front space, a suite of eight digital art prints and six simultaneously played animations from worlds of Soul-Assemblages, Streamborn, and Liquid Paintings fills the room. Yiou merges ethereal movement with laboriously crafted environments, characters, and textural landscapes. Through intricate computational forms and biomorphic abstractions, their aesthetic oscillates between the haunting and the ethereal—where fragmented figures, skeletal frameworks, and fluid textures dissolve into immersive, otherworldly compositions.

In the immersive space, morphing creatures await in holograms of Mixanthropy. As viewers move through the immersive worlds of Water and Co-Life/Co-Demise, they encounter fantastical flora and fauna, dreamlike landscapes, biomorphic abstractions, and deconstructions—each contributing to an aesthetic that oscillates between the haunting and the ethereal. Focused on embodiment in recent years, Yiou’s figures add another layer of alterity through the integration of performance capture and voice acting by various collaborators. Vaporous textures, fractal decay, molten minerals, cosmic formations, ephemeral motion, and crystallized forms embody a fluid morphology in a state of constant becoming—challenging us to reflect upon our own biases, fear of the Other, and the entanglement between gaming and ecological thinking.  

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