“What drives us”
is a question with which “Lei Wang” set off around the world. With camera in hand, the artist and businessman flew around the world (Africa, South America, Central America, Asia) and interviewed people in their everyday lives about their situation and perspective.
With three simple questions, Lei succeeds in gaining insights into the personal reality of life that enable a human connection.
Who are you?
What is your biggest concern?
Have you ever heard of climate change?
He cleverly uses the question of whether the topic of climate change is known on the one hand to keep the topic in focus in times of “Fossil First” and also to get a feel for the relevance of problems on an individual level that can only be solved as humanity.
The exhibition offers extensive insights in the form of photographs and videos and a comprehensive educational program at the Torhaus des BDA | Am Wendenring 3 | Braunschweig;
during the times:
03/14 ab 19°° (opening)
03/15 | 11-18°° (15°° artist tour)
03/16 | 11-18°° (15°° artist tour)
03/19 | 11-18°°
03/20 | 11-18°°
03/21 | 11-18°°
03/22 | 11- Open End
(Finissage from 19°°)
Our agency team will welcome you on site.
Please feel free to drop by.
Curation: Jean D. Sikiaridis
Background:
Lei Wang, MSc. studied chemistry in Braunschweig. His passion for tea and the conversations that he shares led him to start his own business. His sense for the living reality strengthened his own claim to make an active contribution to the preservation of nature and the quality of life. His company Greens Germany GmbH is committed to reducing the CO2 footprint of companies and projects worldwide.
He has never let his art out of his hands and has developed it autodidactically from photography in the direction of social-sculptural questioning. Regardless of his origins, he engages in conversation with people and thus detects individual positions and reveals the underlying realities of life through his camera.
The approaches that occupied Lei in the series of works “WAS UNS UMTREIBT” were:
“What moves us ? – Asked once around the world”
And are there similar themes everywhere?
“What we worry about – global voices in 50 days”
And how would I deal with it ?
“What’s on the world’s mind – an all-round trip of worries and hopes”
The question of how to recognize happiness is ultimately the direction in which the artist Lei Wang has led himself.
Lei is concerned with idealism and combines critical thinking and aesthetic perception. He is inspired by Vittorio Hösle, who emphasizes that philosophy and art should not work outside society, but within it. This is why Lei works with people in the midst of society instead of separating himself from them.