BH.S.TB. No.2

Wang’s work resonates with his Millennial Generation, who grew up binge-watching television cartoons from Japan and the USA over school holidays. Wang pays homage in his works to childhood cartoon characters such as Pikachu, Bart Simpson, Tom and Jerry, Bambi and Thumper, Donald Duck, and Japan’s Sakuragi Hanamichi. Growing up with these Peter Pan – like characters, who never grow old, Wang and his friends cherish their memory (and collect their likenesses well into adulthood), as sweet reminders of bygone childhood days.
Having grown up with the internet，Wang’s seductive brand of childlike “Urban Pop” is filled with consumer appropriation, clearly influenced by Gen Z’s information superhighway of e-commerce, tech companies, bitcoin bosses, digital entertainment, and other on-line global connected experiences. By tagging fashionable streetwear logos in his artwork Wang points not only to an aesthetic of “Street” influences, but more aptly, to all that is shared digitally in online consumption habits.
In his latest work, Wang sets out to find a more personal voice, amidst a barrage of pop culture imagery, juxtaposing for example his broken heart emoji tags on to otherwise “cheerful” scenes.