Working on a large scale, Faye Wei Wei (*1994 London, UK) conceives of the painting process as an intimate choreography between actual and pictorial space. Often revolving around spiritual iconography and classical myth, love rituals and the theatricality of gender, her works sometimes suggest the themes of particular mythic narratives, and at other moments seem to depart into a more ambiguous, interior space of incongruity and uncertainty.
In 2016, on graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art, Faye Wei Wei was awarded the Cass Art Painting Prize for final-year students.
Selected exhibitions: I’ve Always Been a Weeper at the Cinema, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2019); Frail Silver of the Climbing Stars, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, HK (a neon piece commissioned by the British Council Hong Kong, in collaboration with Phillips Auction) (2019); Sweet Bitter, Valentine, SADE, Los Angeles, USA (2018); Faye Wei Wei, Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK (2017).
