Xiaoran
Wu

Wu Xiaoran

Born in Hangzhou in 1986,
received his MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art in 2019, and currently lives and works in Shanghai.

Wu Xiaoran's works primarily concern the relationship between image and history, using painting as a traditional cartographic method to open the gap between the two.

History relays what happened in the past through oral narratives, texts, and pictures, yet the space between the real and the carrier is often overlooked due to the passage of time. Through a hand-drawn image of a specious frame from history, he attempts to make the viewer experience the gap between existence and narrative. Thus, the cracks in time and space are torn, and the camouflage of history is pierced. An image takes on a place of its own, and a story of the past is rewritten.