MLitt Fine Art Practice School of Fine Art
Yunzhong Wang
PHOTOGRAPHER/ARTIST
Yunzhong Wang is a contemporary artist who primarily works with photography. His artistic practice is grounded in a profound philosophical inquiry: a perpetual skepticism toward the reality of the world. He does not provide answers but instead constructs a space of sustained interrogation through his work, aiming to systematically suspend the habitual cognitive frameworks upon which people rely to make sense of reality.
His work—whether in the medium of photography, video, installation, or text—ultimately serves one purpose: to provoke a pervasive and critical skepticism. He urges viewers to examine the boundaries of their own perception, to question whether what is seen, remembered, or even believed possesses any stable core of “truth.” Discussions of technological mediation, data hegemony, or consumer symbols are pathways into this inquiry rather than endpoints; they are among the methodologies he employs to reveal the constructed nature and fluidity of “the real.”
Works
UNTITLED 02-04 & UPRIVER
The UNTITLED（2025） series deconstructs the aurora borealis captured in Northern Europe. By juxtaposing images obtained by CMOS sensors, AI-generated results, and the lived experience of naked-eye perception, it reveals technology’s powerful role as a “cognitive filter,” while also actively searching for a resistant form of truth grounded in bodily and material experience beyond the algorithmically-defined reality.
The moving image work UPRIVER（2025） exposes the essence of the “hallucination” generated by AI through data fitting. It interrogates algorithmically-defined reality and attempts to reclaim cognitive sovereignty from technological hegemony.
Exhibited within the same space, these works collectively construct a tense “field of visual argumentation” through the juxtaposition of visual samples derived from multiple media sources. They investigate how individual and collective memories are captured, filtered, and reconstructed by various technological media—including photography, archives, and social media—ultimately coalescing into a fitted narrative. The installation invites viewers to engage in critical reflection on the fundamental question: What is real?
