air hunter/air hunting 捕风捉影
2023 - 2025
Shenzhen (2025), Melbourne (2024), Kyoto (2024), San Miguel del Allende (2024)
This project began with human ambition and found its way into the strange territory of unclaimed inheritance. It hasn’t fully landed. Since it began, hot air balloons, eggshells, balancing acts, they have taken on a permanent space in my work. Air hunting is a thinking process for me to suspend the meaning of materials by testing them in various sites and social context. Traveling with lightweight lacquer assemblages to Mexico, Japan, Melbourne and back to China, I find social ways to apply them into new settings.
WEI WENG, Pace of Ambition, 2024
digital print on photo rag paper, edition of 3, 110 cm x 85cm, framed
WEI WENG, Air Hunting I, 2025
Digital print, framed
WEI WENG, Air Hunting II, 2025
Digital print, framed
poster for Kyoto RPS gallery residency project The Heir Hunter Office, 2025
WEI WENG, Untitled Lacquered Pods, Kyoto RPS Gallery installation 2024
WEI WENG, Locally Sourced Spinster and Lacquer Buckets, RPS Gallery installation view, 2024
WEI WENG, RPS Gallery installation view, 2024
WEI WENG, RPS Gallery installation view, 2024
poster for VOID_Melbourne solo project Air Hunter, 2024
WEI WENG, Air Hunter, Solo Project, VOID_Melbourne gallery view, 2024
WEI WENG, Freight Fright Fight Flight 2024
Lacquer, eggshells, wood, wire, wire rack
assemblage dimension approx. 160 cm x 120 cm x 8cm
WEI WENG, Prototype To Becoming A Better Ringleader, 2024
Urushi lacquer, mixed media substrate, wire
Assemblage 275 cm x 18cm x 8cm
WEI WENG, Heir I, 2024
Urushi lacquerware, bamboo rings, hot air balloon nylon envelope, 2024
dimension 280cm x 170cm x 150cm
WEI WENG, Erasure of Ambition, 2024
Digital print on photo rag paper 60cm x 43cm Edition of 3 (framed)