Wearing a pair of rain boots filled with water, the artist wandered through the exhibition hall, randomly asking audience members, “What is your name?” If they answered, he would shake their hand and leave; if they didn’t respond, he would slap himself across the face.
Wang Yanxin, born in 1988 in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2013. Since 2012, he has been engaged in multimedia artistic creation based on performance art. He currently lives and works in Chengdu and is a professor at Sichuan Conservatory of Culture and Arts.