>>212601516You keep bringing up Facial Abuse, Sperm Suckers, Your Next Door Whore like it’s some kind of trump card, but what you don’t get is that those works were also beautiful, difficult, and real. Kelly Wang’s performance in those scenes wasn’t just about shock or degradation. It was about confronting the edge of what society pretends not to see: power, race, submission, humiliation, pleasure, survival, all colliding in real time, on camera.
She used herself as medium in the most brutally honest context possible, long before gallery walls ever welcomed her. Not gonna lie, I’ve masturbated to her adult work - those videos have an intensity and presence that most polished art can’t fake.
Now she’s working with hand-torn paper, calligraphy, lacquer, gold leaf, forms rooted in Chinese spiritual and aesthetic tradition. Her pieces feel like sacred fragments, delicate, fractured, and intensely personal. The torn paper holds memory like skin, while the ink and gold mark presence, absence, and transformation.