Pei-Hsuan Wang's "Gratitude Is A Colored Vessel"

Ballon Rouge is proud to present Pei-Hsuan Wang's Gratitude Is A Colored Vessel from September 7 - November 11, 2023. The title is a direct translation of her grandmother's married name in Chinese, 謝彩盆. It is a love letter.

Wang, who was born in Taiwan and moved to the United States in her late teens, has been exploring her identity as an East Asian woman growing up inundated and influenced by multiple ideologies and cultures since she began her career as an artist. Whether it be incorporating her half-Asian, half-White niece Iris as a muse and a metaphor, or drawing inspiration from her maternal grandmother's fruit farm in Taiwan, Wang has been parsing her identity vis-a-vis her matrilineal heritage. Woven throughout this is her use of myths and folklore from China and East Asia, and her invested knowledge in history, both real and fantastical as well as personal. In her works, her family—specifically its women—become mythic and symbolic.

Pei-Hsuan Wang (b. 1987, Taiwan) has exhibited work at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, and the National Gallery of Indonesia, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include Ghost Eat Mud at Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (2022), I've Left My Body to Occupy Others at Good Weather, Chicago (2020), For Iris at Gallery 456, New York (2020), and You Are My Sunshine at Taipei Contemporary Art Center (2019). She had a solo booth with Ballon Rouge at Art Brussels 2023 and this is her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Wang lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

Pei-Hsuan Wang

Gratitude Is a Colored Vessel

September 7 - November 11

Opening September 7th, 5-9 PM

Brussels Gallery Weekend

September 7th-10th

5-9 PM Thursday

11-7PM Fri - Sun 

Source: BALLON ROUGE