Wang Yanxin is a performance artist who constantly explores and experiences the world through his body. He is highly sensitive to the language of performance, focusing on the presence of the moment and the relationships between action, environment, context, memory, time, and history. His work combines a sense of personal heroism with an exhilaration of playful irony, often unfolding in short, episodic scenes. These performances tend to evoke an inexplicable sadness, and self-punishment, provocation, shocking, or playful mockery are common methods he employs. Emotions spread across his strong actions, resolute will, and black humor, while he also harbors a special sentiment towards lost lives and memories—wildness and melancholy—that form the inner tension of his body.