Wang Yahui
Painted paper with ink, lit it, and looked at the resulting space through a lens; when the photograph failed, she went back to the paper.
Taiwan · 1973–2023 · Video, photography, kinetic objects
Wang Yahui, Questions to Shadow #2
Wang Yahui · 2017 · Inkjet print on fine-art paper mounted on Dibond
Wang Yahui, Questions to Shadow #2, 2017. Ink, paper and directed light become a black-and-white photographic space. Taipei Fine Arts Museum collection. Editorial use.
Editorial useView source ↗
Wang Yahui worked across video, photography and kinetic objects. For Questions to Shadow #2 she used ink on paper, artificial light and a camera, and estimated that one attempt in ten might produce a usable result.
Reading and writing ran beside her image-making. She died in 2023.
Sources
- TFAM: Wang Yahui: Voyager ↗ — Dates, curators, and the selected works
- TFAM Museum Island: Wang Yahui interview ↗ — The artist on her working method and images
- Wang Yahui's archive ↗ — The artist's own work record
Current and upcoming exhibitions
- UpcomingWang Yahui: Voyager
September 12, 2026 – January 3, 2027 · Tuesday–Sunday 9:30–17:30 · Saturday until 20:30 · closed Monday