Feiyi Wen b. 1990

Feiyi Wen (b.1990, Beijing) lives and works in London. She holds a Masters degree in Photography from The Royal College of Art and a practice-led PhD in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Wen’s practice is a meditation on duality—East and West, human and machine, analogue and digital. Rooted in the traditions of East Asian landscape painting and the mechanised aesthetics of early 20th-century Japan and China, her work bridges historical disciplines in a contemporary space. Much like Franz Gertsch, Wen’s photography strives for a rightness among all represented elements. Through repeatedly scanning and reprinting the original image, her works shed their photographic precision and acquire a painterly softness—a texture echoing the ink-wash paintings of her birthplace.

Feiyi Wen’s work has been exhibited at the Academy of Visual Art, Hong Kong (2019); Aperture Gallery, New York (2019); ONCA Gallery and Outdoor Hub, Brighton (2018); Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing (2018); Cosmos Arles Book, Arles (2018); and The Slade School of Fine Art, London (2018). Earlier presentations include Fabrica, Brighton (2017); Photo Oxford, Oxford (2017); Roaming ROOM, London (2017); Industria Superstudios, Brooklyn, New York (2016); SPACE 22 Gallery, Seoul (2016); Exeter Phoenix, Exeter (2016); CAFA Library, Beijing (2015); OBJECTIFS, Singapore (2015); Photo Shanghai, Shanghai (2015); Gucang Contemporary Photo Gallery, Lanzhou (2015); and Tate Britain, London (2014).