Curated by Jerome Sans, Zhan Wang’s recent exhibition “My Personal Universe” at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, painstakingly recreated the moment before fragmented pieces of a boulder, which the artist exploded in the mountains of Shandong Province, flew apart. The hanging replicas of stone fragments and six slow motion HD films installed at UCCA served, for the sculptor and conceptual artist, as a microcosm for the birth of the universe.
Zhan explains to ArtAsiaPacific his philosophy behind “My Personal Universe” and man’s place between and within the cycle of creation and destruction.
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