Longer Than Smoke—Chicago-based Taiwanese artist Pei-Hsuan Wang’s solo exhibition at Good Weather in Little Rock—is an archipelago formed from a long list of associations; a itemized receipt of experiences translated through a wide-ranging catalog of materials and on-going concerns in the artist’s practice:
Ephemerality, ghosts
Memories (lost, reappearing)
Lineage, ancestralship, kin
Homages
Cycles/renewal
A story within a story, a side note
Reconciliation: adolescence/adulthood
Diaspora
Like an overflowing basket of freshly laundered clothes—seperating each item to fold causes a bursting static electricity that reveals the invisible energy which holds
these disparate parts, references, and symbols together.
Longer Than Smoke by Pei-Hsuan Wang is the artist’s second solo exhibition with Good Weather and first in Little Rock.
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Pei-Hsuan Wang’s practice traces kinship shaped by migration, memory, and the interplay between personal and canonized histories. Weaving together bio(mytho)graphical narratives, folklore, and cultural artifacts born of Asia-Pacific geopolitics, her work reflects on how meaning is carried and reconstructed across generations. Through sculpture, installation, video, drawing, and public intervention, Wang navigates migratory restlessness, incorporating materials ranging from sancai ceramics and institutionally loaned objects to motorized mechanisms. Wang has participated in the Kortrijk Triennial (Kortrijk, Belgium), the Beaufort Triennial along the Belgian coastline, and most recently in the RHIZOMA International Biennial for Contemporary Art at MASEREEL (Kasterlee, Belgium). Solo and group exhibitions have been hosted at Framer Framed (Amsterdam), Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), STUK Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Publiek Park (Antwerp), Ballon Rouge Collective (Brussels), Kunsthal Gent (Ghent), Good Weather (Chicago), and Taipei Contemporary Art Center, among others. Wang currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Ceramics at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
