Bonny Tale

Leilei Wu will present her first solo show Bonny Tale at design week. Curated by Yicong Sun, Bonny Tale is a neo-gothic fairy tale inspired by Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat, a love poem in which the protagonists marry in the land where the Bong-tree grows, four main anthropomorphic creatures in the show are algorithmically captured and domesticated in a narrative of metamorphosis expounded by the artist. They either interweave with industrial materials, or diverge and self-replicate in a twin form, constructing the exhibition site as an enigmatic, serendipitous shelter activated by a dark-romantic tale.

Leilei Wu is a visual artist working between the virtual and the real, drawing inspiration from synthetic materials in developing her unique hybrid-form sculptural language.