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Have you ever had an intermediate experience? Like being trapped in a foggy room? This installation explores the themes of identity, transition and growth. Through the symbolism of fog and driftwood, the artist visualized the threshold psychological state experienced by the migrants in the process of cultural adaptation. In the work, the viewer is invited into a threshold space, facing a mirror and a transparent box containing driftwood. The fog symbolizes the transient obstacles in the middle state, while the driftwood represents the traveler seeking stability and belonging. When the fog cleases, the clear reflection emerges, providing the viewer with a metaphor of self-discovery and clarity that encourages people to embrace the changing potential and the unknown.
The work has been exhibited at the London Brompton Cemetery, Asylum Chapel and Hackney Downs Studios.
In China's design and social environment, my work responds to the problems of rapid urbanization, technological change and personal identity. Combining local culture and global vision, using information experience design and new media techniques to explore the boundaries between people and the environment, reality and virtual.
For example, one of my Graduate360 award-winning works, "Tingshu", uses handmade books as a medium to trace the decline of the storytelling culture and the memory of my grandfather. It is not only a visual expression, but also a narrative exploration based on materials, symbols and physical traces. The wooden cover corresponds to the "tree" in the grandfather's name, while comprehensive materials such as rice paper, charcoal and pigments strengthen the texture of time and memory, while the use of pipe scorch and ashes conveys the image of cultural disappearance through sensory experience.
In China's social and cultural context, Tingshu reflect the intersection of personal memory and the changing times. The work not only expresses the reflection on the oral tradition of storytelling, but also reveals the impact of modern lifestyle on traditional culture. In the context of contemporary design, it reflects how design carries emotion and history, and through the combination of materiality and conceptual, it arouses the audience's resonance with cultural changes. This emotion-driven design is the unique value of Chinese contemporary design in the direction of local cultural regeneration and personal narrative.
Wang Yuanhui, graphic designer and visual creator, lives and works in Beijing. The work has been selected twice in the Graduate360 ° Bish Yearbook.
He has studied in Communication University of China and Royal College of Art and obtained a bachelor's degree in visual communication design (minor in new media art) and a master's degree in information experience design. She explores contemporary life experience through narrative and speculative approaches, with core themes including materiality, identity and threshold.
