Solo Exhibition Madeln Art Museum, Shanghai
Madeln Art Museum is pleased to present a solo project "Wang Xin: Head Swapping Games" opening on June 22, 2024. Wang Xin's creative practice observes nature, the external structures of the body, and internal cavities, seeking to express the relationships among them to initiate an exploration of the uncertain states of things. This new exhibition will feature a series of paintings created by Wang Xin between 2021 and 2024. Inspired by a wordplay in the English language, these works reconfigure materials, juxtaposing death, rebirth, desire, and the fundamental particles of the universe. Through this recombination, they hint at the instability of material entities, thereby pointing to the transmutation between different forms and mediums.
Madeln Art Museum is a living space. Grasshoppers chirp, cicadas buzz, frogs croak, mantises and locusts move through undulating grass, while snakes slither in hidden currents. Insect eggs and dewdrops spiral into form. A wild expanse of green stretches out—a whole "rhizome." And here, I aim to revive the childhood "head-swapping game." It’s like assembling a cicada’s head fallen from a summer tree onto a grasshopper’s body, or combining decaying animal remains from the wild grass with raw mineral stones. Holding a specimen, I connect it through perspective to distant cottages; I make plants merge with mountain cave openings... I freely replace every "head" within sight, bringing together seemingly unrelated elements: animal legs, bio-humans, plants, fingers, cavities, houses, spiral green dots.
I savor the delight of a creator, feeling the expanding signals released by reawakened neurons, and the subtle textures of alien matter under the glow of mediating light. Rejection, recombination, rearrangement, transformation—it echoes the cosmic explosion 13.8 billion years ago, when all galaxies, everything within them, all mass and matter, were compressed into a space smaller than an atom.
I build, layer, and uncover the hidden structures of cosmic exits and entrances that traverse space, enabling movement across spatial dimensions. It’s like discovering wormholes—those tubular passages that connect distant points within the same universe, or even link separate universes, allowing interstellar travel.
Heads swap with bodies, subatomic particles reassemble, recombining within inner environments. The original head hovers, trembles, compresses, dissolves, reorganizes, and embeds itself. Spontaneous generation occurs, and the body transforms into a new head, continuing the cycle of flux.
Everything exists in an intermediate state of change—a game in perpetual transition.
——Wang Xin
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