Quiet Moonlight is Sun Wang’s debut solo exhibition featuring paintings with dynamic storyboards and disorienting vignettes which address social-economic as well as cultural struggles and themes, including religion, mythology, war and the rise and fall of regimes across countries. His goal is to create polyphonic narratives through images and brushstrokes without using a single authoritative voice. In 2020, Wang was selected as a recipient of the 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship, celebrating artists at a critical point in their career.
He uses the storyboard to explore multiplicity to examine cultural exchanges between the East and the West, especially in the post-industrial world where technology and media narratives influence the cultural communication between Eastern and Western cultures. By using a time-space transition between the grids, Wang seeks to frame historical figures and events within a post-global context, connecting myths and contemporary events with history to explore how the viewer interprets his multi-layered paintings and catalyze the multiplicity of individuals themselves.