www.coralineweng.com
Artist BioCoraline (Jingyan) Weng (b. 1996) is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist working with installation, video and sound, currently based in New York.
YES!, 2017
Door frame, necklace, table, cups, clothing and mixed media
This series of works contain an interior space with a door frame, table, clothing and other items to symbolize people’s emotions, intents, and ideologies while interacting with others.
The Media Year: 2017, 2017
Printed calendar, newspaper collages, and mixed media
In this work, by putting different headlines from newspapers together, I made collages that create distorted stories in order to discover how mass media selectively influences people’s attention. As an individual, it is hard to explore the truth under the surface in a society that is dominated by mass media and group consciousness.
The Media, Detail
Skeleton, 2018
Beeswax, velvet pillow and opened clam
In this work, by putting different headlines from newspapers together, I made collages that create distorted stories in order to discover how mass media selectively influences people’s attention.
Skeleton, Detail
Omega, 2019
Multiple raw eggs, heat and epoxy resin
5" × 5" × 5"
Omega is a series made with broken, raw eggs and epoxy resin. This piece excavates the sensory experience of chronic pain from being trapped and restrained. The buoyancy in the liquid pushes the eggshell up, and the content in the raw egg comes out to resist the resin that is curing around it. The heat released by the process of curing epoxy resin cooks the egg inside the cube. In the end, everything in that cube has achieved a state of balance between these two opposing forces or influences. It leaves an unfinished and broken quality to the object which can be read as a manifestation of violence or consequence of disorder.
Omega, Detail
Dinner is Ready (video still), 2020
Video with sound
I am interested in exploring the ASMR video along with the visual content. My video Dinner is Ready shows a knife sharpening and cutting materials that are strange or bizarre: gloves, slippers, and flowers, presented on a flipped-over round table. I replace the original cutting sounds with unexpected, artificial sound effects sound effects to impact the viewer in a discomforting way. The voice-over is saying commanding sentences that are unusual and irrelevant to the visuals. The imagery of the video with the sound presents both the suggestion of two remotely connected stories that are concealing each other, while the repetition creates anxiety. I am suggesting a duality that is embedded in the piece: the two extremes, life and death, love and hate, comfort and discomfort in the domestic field.
Link to video
Dinner is Ready (video still)
Dinner is Ready (video still)
Artist StatementCoraline examines the intersections of urban unity, group psychology, and the new effects of digital expansion in mainland China through the collaging of objects and the repurposing of digital images and visual effects. She moves her focus to the factors that alter the individuals’ perspective, specifically, identity, culture, memories, and trauma.
Instagram: @coralinewen