About the Artist
Jing Wei Feng (b.2000) is a Los Angeles based artist working mainly in mixed media sculpture and assemblage. Her work explores cultural self-perception and the shifting fragility of irreverent, consequential dogma through personal histories. Using creative fantasy as personal mythology, Feng creates a dialogue with ideas of agency in selfdom, ancestry and history, filial relations, and the state of deserving love. She aims to create realms that reflect an intimate, intertwining, detached yet obsessive narrative revolving around personal survival, humanity, fragility and prosperity.
when the wind fell i felt it too, 2022
maidenhair, 2022
fathom to cease the beast, 2022
progenitor god ruptured heaven, 2022
baby's first steps, 2021
by throat of more, 2022
About the Work
made in name [maiden name] seeks to explore the suspension of lineage and history in conflict with migration and heritage in the throes of body and memory. Both semantic and maternal relationships are explored, calling attention to the bounds of agency and power related to femininity and hegemony. Mythology and speculative histories become an instrument to unravel and rebuild a diasporic narrative where deception is more important than resistance, recollective imagining more powerful than cultural centrality. Motifs and symbols emerge from sculptures and collages to consider the relationships between human and animal worlds, mother and child, and violence and tenderness. Postured within greater notions of love, these works aim to describe a unique complexity in the perpetual morphing of the Chinese diasporic consciousness.