These works are not built on a cohesive thread of logic. I always
maintain many concurrent threads, and I also replace, lay aside,
and alter their focal points.
To call my work “an expression of ideas” is perhaps to misunderstand it, because I have no ideas requiring expression that exist before the event.
I am more interested in triggering the operating mechanisms
of so-called “ideas.”
I am very interested in outmoded conventions. I believe that these are the areas in which people are most lacking in vigilance. The deepest buried emotions and logic are both concealed within commonly seen
conventions, all our knowledge and customs have already permeated a direct perception that does not have to be thought about. Because of its enduring dullness this sort of conventionality has numbed human beings into habitually using the logic of spoken and written language to control their instinctual reactions to unknown situations. I try to make a surprise attack on this habit, or else to quietly change a certain element contained within, the better to make people feel a certain subtle unease. And this has all already happened before the “safety check” of textual analysis through language can begin.
— Wang Xingwei

Selected group exhibitions: 2001: Inauguration, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijng; Still Painting, CAAW, Beijng; 2000: Unusual & Usual, Yuoangog Art Museum, Shanghai; Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups, BizArt, Shanghai; Fuck Off, Eastlink, Shanghai; Futuro, CACOM, Macau; Zeitwender-Rueckblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum, Bonn.