Wang Ximan
Private Swimming Pool
2022
Video
21’32’’
Private Swimming Pool starts with a posture of rebelling against rights, thus exposing the “private zone”. Whether suspended in the air or immersed in water, it is a long state of suffocation. From “the perspective of moral high ground”, the work narrates that people’s desire for power is as hysterical as that for air, generating sacred moments as they try to get rid of or fight against it.
About Wang Ximan：
Ximan Wang (1990, Shenyang, China) graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in 2016. She is active in art workshops and festivals in China and Europe, and works in the media of performance, video and installation. Her work has a defiant spirit, focusing on and exploring identity, gender fluidity, power inequality… and continues to explore the positioning of the self, the relationship between the external and the internal in her performances through various media. Wang was nominated for the Talent Award at MACRO Testaccio in Rome in 2016. She has been invited to participate in BEDS.athens Performance Art event, Athens, Greece (2021), the ZABIH Performance Art Festival in Lviv, Ukraine (2019), The Up-On International Live Art, Chengdu, China (2019, 2022), and Free Fem Radicals, PAErsche, Cologne, Germany (2019), Performance Train, Hungary-Czech-Poland-Slovakia (2018), etc.