Wang Tuo’s Northeast Fantasies Turn Chinese History Inside Out at the Sigg Prize
History rarely sits still in Wang Tuo’s art. Winner of the 2023 Sigg Prize, this Changchun-born artist weaves together film, painting, and installation to create stories where fact and fiction twist around each other. His acclaimed video series, The Northeast Tetralogy, unpacks the tangled legacies of modern China, drawing from archives, mythology, and personal memory. Wang’s method is almost literary—he stitches real documents and footage into speculative tales, exposing the hidden traumas and silenced voices of recent decades. The Sigg Prize, hosted by M+ in Hong Kong, spotlights artists who push the boundaries of Chinese contemporary art. Wang’s work, alongside pieces by Jes Fan, Miao Ying, Xie Nanxing, Trevor Yeung, and Yu Ji, invites viewers to reconsider what is remembered, what is forgotten, and what is imagined. In Wang Tuo’s hands, history becomes a living, restless thing—never quite what it seems.
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