Duruo Wang and Wenxin Zhang are interdisciplinary artists working collectively through The Con(tra)cave, a long-term artistic research project that examines issues of representation through a feminist lens. Rooted in their encounters with spaces historically marked as ‘sunken fields’ and geologically characterised as caves and concavities in the karst landscape of Southwest China, the project interrogates the political and cultural narratives that shape normative regimes of intelligibility and visibility. The Con(tra)cave is conceived as a practice of ‘unworlding’—it unsettles the demand for inclusion within established forms, while remaining attentive to the material and reproductive dependencies that sustain sociality.
Website: www.zhangwenxin.com
Instagram: @_duruo_ | @wenxinzhang
Image: Portrait of Duruo Wang and Wenxin Zhang. Photography by Huang Yi.
