Corpus: Her embodied Archive
Artist & Works
Peiran Wang & Wenjun Xie


We are an artist duo come from China and are based globally, focusing on multi-disciplinary matriarchal practice. Our work explores the transformation and regeneration of trauma in female life experiences under patriarchy. While summoning women's narration worldwide, a non-anthropocentric perspective is adapted to seek the possibility of universal healing in humanity and nature. With curatorial and research experience in the art industry, we follow an artist-curator approach with diverse mediums like performance, installation, writing, photography, etc.

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Monument(2024) 
photography

A woman's body takes the shape of the nature, becoming the ecosystems that feed and nourish the world. Her body is covered with Nüshu (means female writing), a writing system created and used only by women in China. Inspired by the mythology of goddesses worldwide, the universal SHE, has the power in herself and she could be everything, grand mountains, flowing rivers, growing plants, or fleeting clouds. What we need might always be inside ourselves to be awaken. Therefore, to create suitable pairings for the work, we refuse to generate new image consumptions, and look for answers in ourselves from the remains of our past activities, to evoke their energy.  




Songs of Silence
(2022-2024) 
photo book

This collaborative project sees the set of character relationships, the Little Mermaid and the Witch, as female escapees and guides in a patriarchal society, inspired by the original story and recent adaptations. They share similar dilemmas between women/man, non-human/human, ocean/land, and even matriarchy/patriarchy. In response, we see their relationship as an archetype - female escapists and guides in a patriarchal society - to refer the intertwined destines and voices of all the female characters, the politically-symbolized princess, the supportive mermaid sisters, etc.
This work aims to present their muted monologues, their relations, and to seek the transformation in their destines through the exchanging process of collaborative photography. It is organized in four chapters: mouth, feet, faces, and hand-held objects, which are metaphors of females’ bodies as battlefield between matriarchy/patriarchy. At the corner of every page, the moon phase serves as page numbers, as women’s body change in different period.