Antenna Space is delighted to present Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s works in Art Basel’s online viewing room which can be accessed from Artbasel.com directly. VIP preview will start from May 19, 2 pm to May 21, 4 pm, and the public day will start from May 21, 4 pm to May 23, 12 midnight.

Eileen Chang once waved off the word “tragedy” as a label for her writing, which she felt tied things up too neatly. Instead, she described her work as an art of “desolation,” whose effects penetrate more deeply by never resolving, “like the conjunction of scallion green with peach red, creating an equivocal contrast.” [1] You could see Wang’s work, too, as a succession of equivocal contrasts that play out against its placid backdrops: its gray skies, blank spaces, meditative gardens, and warm table lamps. You might find some relief, but never closure.

[1] Eileen Chang, quoted in Yuan Wang, Transgressing Boundaries: Hybridity in Ailing’s Writing and Its Multidimensional Interpretations in Contemporary China (PhD diss., McGill University, 2006), 57.