Wang uses short videos and films to create art installations. She focuses on social subjects and issues to illuminate unusual perspectives for her audiences. Born and raised in China, she studied video production and media studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Canada. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Yiting’s early artworks focused on the theme of cross-cultural differences, while her recent practices begin to explore the emerging cultural phenomena of the “single-child” generation in China and its sociological shifts.In this installation, a non-linear video documentary is shown in separated pieces on different TV monitors.While not implying narrative storylines of the three main characters who are the products of the single-child policy in China, the work emphasizes the implementation of the policy that has resulted the extremely pressured, self-centered, and lonely generations ever produced in the Chinese history. The three children in the installation are from different age groups which implies a subtle transition superimposed onto the consequences of the single-child policy.
By focusing specifically on three characters rather than making a massive interpretation on a larger scope, the artist tries to manifest and address the policy consequences onto a more authentic scale. The project itself is not
a final answer or critique to the policy, but it will be a channel that carries out voices of the involved ones.
