Spotlight Series
Yidi Wang: Belongings
June 15 – July 20, 2025
This exhibition explores motherhood, emotional labor, and posthuman kinship, examining how these concepts evolve through the lens of personal memory, technological mediation, and feminist critique.
Wang poses questions with this show: Can motherhood be externalized through machines or systems, and what does that mean for the idea of care? What happens when love is separated from duty?
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Yidi Wang is a Chinese interdisciplinary new media artist, educator, and curator. She holds an MFA in Design for Emerging Technologies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her early work focused on using interactive design to address social issues, but during her graduate studies, her practice shifted toward performance-based and research-driven work. She now explores how technology, the body, and speculative narratives can challenge traditional ideas of gender, reproduction, and human identity through a feminist and posthuman lens.
Her work has been exhibited at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Midwest Fair at Mana Contemporary, No Nation - Art Gallery and Tangential Unspace Lab, the Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation in Barcelona, EEA Gallery in New York, and the Caroline S. Mark Gallery in Wausau, Wisconsin. She recently presented her solo exhibition Belongings at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago. Her work has been featured in Artwork Gallery and AI-Tiba9 Magazine.