Wei WENG

Wei Weng | Leaves No Trace, 2023 Wood, rope, paint | 180cm x 120cm x 120cm | Photo: Void_Melbourne & Courtesy of the Artist | Leave No Trace stages a playful interpretation of the artist's recent move from Copenhagen to Melbourne. In this dual expe

Wei Weng | Leaves No Trace, 2023 Wood, rope, paint | 180cm x 120cm x 120cm | Photo: Void_Melbourne & Courtesy of the Artist | Leave No Trace stages a playful interpretation of the artist's recent move from Copenhagen to Melbourne. In this dual experience of geographic dance, the artist flips over her sculpture while upholding the object’s Nordic origin captured in a pixelated digital print. In delivering this sense of dislocation at 190 Bourke Street pop-up gallery, the artwork traces migration as a precarious and performative transition where material forms and digitized memories swiftly adjust in a new environment, to shape shifting from the origin story. Chinese visual artist Wei Weng moved from Copenhagen to Melbourne in 2023. Leave No Trace is from her ongoing research series Labyrinth.

Wei Weng | Prototype In Becoming A Better Ringleader, 2023 | Urushi lacquerware, wires, chain | Site specific assemblage, dimension variable Photo: Andrew Curtis & Courtesy of the Artist

Wei Weng | Prototype In Becoming A Better Ringleader, 2023 | Urushi lacquerware, wires, chain | Site specific assemblage, dimension variable Photo: Andrew Curtis & Courtesy of the Artist

Master Thief | 2023 | Mixed media, paint, eggshell inlay, xia fabric, LED light, rope, plastic tube | 160cm x 65cm x 40cm

Master Thief | 2023 | Mixed media, paint, eggshell inlay, xia fabric, LED light, rope, plastic tube | 160cm x 65cm x 40cm