Szu-Yi Wang explores intimate, temporal gestures engaging with spatial concerns and intercultural dialogues. Contemplating the interplay of translation and transformation, she distills her unique sensibility into methodologies, forms, and aesthetics—through writing, drawings, paper sculptures, and light-and-shadow installations. Her poetic, narrative works often inquire into inclusive relationships between humans and nature, as well as across urban and linguistic landscapes.
Zì Yuán, A Spring Stroll 字園遊步
Resonating with the climate concerns of de Voedseltuin Rotterdam, Zì Yuán (Hanzi Garden) is a circular installation that reawakens seasonal sensibilities through language, movement, and nature. It brings together studies of ancient pictographs with poetic origins, sculptures that visualize natural events, and body gestures forming a sensorial choreography with the garden. These acts reveal how ancient thinkers perceived cycles of time and weather, while expanding storytelling potentials across different cultures and inviting audiences to reconnect with our environmental awareness through contemporary forms.
By reintroducing the cyclical sensibilities into a present-day ecological context, the work opens a space for dialogue on how cultural memory can restore attention to the rhythms we share with the earth.