Join us for a gathering of conversation and inspiration with one of the works featured in our current exhibition, Reanimator. While sitting with Frank WANG Yefang’s work The Whimsical Characters, we'll use dialogue and activities to learn about the artist's specific experiences and search for a deeper understanding of our shared ones. You can read a statement from the artist below:

“Characters that exist ‘inbetween’ are integral to my creations. The Whimsical Characters is an ongoing project. It relates to the affect lingering in the space of inbetweenness, and attends to the philosophies of posthumanism. In this body of works, a series of digital bodies reside in plasma screens as discarnate entities, indicating that they are beings of the virtual world. But they continuously attempt to affect and connect to the viewers through their emotional outbursts built upon dramatic motion-capture data. The coded recording of real human movements is enveloped in the polygonal virtual “bodies.” Their paradoxical forms lead to an imagination of subjectivities preserved in a complex array of ambiguous dimensions.”

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Inside the Art, Outside Ourselves is a 3-part Stove Works Exhibition-Specific series that invites you to spend time reflecting on a work from our current exhibition. Through guiding prompts, we encourage you to dig deeper into the work, into yourself, and to build a connection. 

A worksheet will be launched at each public workshop. After the fact, this worksheet can be used by you or with a group at your own pace. You are welcome to respond in whichever working practice makes the most sense to you, be it through drawing, writing, etc.