Fan Bangyu ( Xi’an, China) is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation and sound. Using a combination of found objects, organic, and nonorganic materials, their work often takes the form of installations where objects wrap around or collapse into each other in varying states of decay and disrepair.
The root of Fan’s practice is driven by their connection to their working class and queer identity, which is explored sensorially. Fan does this by combining culturally specific visual metaphors and puzzles with sonic or kinetic elements that seem random or devoid of narrative. The unintelligibility of the sounds and images in Fan’s work creates an uncanny viewing experience, reflecting the artist’s aim to deconstruct the superstructures that shape our social subjectivities.