# EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life

EVELYN TAOCHENG WANG: Being Poetic Ruins Life at Goldsmiths, University of London Campus, Saturday 31 October 2026, 12:00.

- Price: Free
- Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London Campus, SE14 6NW London
- Go to page: https://websearch.gold.ac.uk/s/redirect?collection=goldsmiths~sp-events&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gold.ac.uk%2Fcalendar%2F%3Fid%3D16163&index_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gold.ac.uk%2Fcalendar%2F%3Fid%3D16163%2Ffb-recurring-event%2F27&auth=wmRq8%2FBeIJ9%2FlRswx%2FZYvQ&profile=_default&rank=13&query=%21FunDoesNotExist%3Apadrenull

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An art exhibition filling an entire contemporary art building with painting, ink works, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and text. It is the first UK institutional exhibition by Evelyn Taocheng Wang, a Netherlands-based artist, presented by the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Through her 'make-up box' approach and her unreliable narrator 'The Cultural Whore', the works move between fiction, autobiography and cultural projection to assemble an idiosyncratic portrait of Britain shaped by translation, misunderstanding, desire and performance. New commissions explore the Chinese diasporic experience and Britain's cultural image in China, drawing on motifs from Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, the film Titanic and Count Duckula, with paintings indebted to Agnes Martin.

## Dates

- Saturday 31 October 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Sunday 1 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Wednesday 4 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Thursday 5 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Friday 6 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Saturday 7 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Sunday 8 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Wednesday 11 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Thursday 12 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Friday 13 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Saturday 14 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Sunday 15 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Wednesday 18 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Thursday 19 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Friday 20 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Saturday 21 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Sunday 22 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Wednesday 25 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Thursday 26 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus
- Friday 27 November 12:00 — Goldsmiths, University of London Campus

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