Hu Wei (b.1989, Dalian, China) lives and works in Beijing, graduated from CAFA and obtained an MA at Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in NL in 2016. He works in a variety of media, including film making, installation, printed images, performance and drawing. His interest often begins with the seemingly unrelated elements between text and visual culture, exploring the multiple, speculative connections between art and reality in relation to both political and formal level through research, “translation” and imagination. His recent practice travels through different geo-contexts and “silencing” histories and materials, investigating the dynamics, fragmentation and synthetic alienation of human, non-human and material in the process of historical and natural transformation. Combined with moving image and essayistic aesthetics, his works also unfold the precarious relationship between invisible labor, affect, and value judgments in different political and economic environments.

胡偉，1989年生於大連，工作生活於北京。他本科畢業於中央美術學院油畫系，2016 年研究生畢業於 Dutch Art Institute (DAI)。胡偉使用影像、裝置、 印刷圖像、表演和繪畫等多種媒介進行創作。他的興趣常始於文本與視覺文化之間看似無關的元素，通過調研、轉譯和想像來探索藝術與現實關係在政治和形式上的多重的、可思辨的聯繫。他近期的實踐遊走在不同的地緣語境和“消音”的歷史和材料中，調查個人、非人及物質在歷史和自然改造過程中的能動性，分裂和人為的異化。結合動態影像和散文美學，他的工作也揭示不可見的勞動、情動和價值判斷在不同政治經濟環境中的不穩定關係。