Wenjie Feng

Graduate Diploma 24/25
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“I discover interesting text and labels by deconstructing food packaging. Considering both the original purpose of the labels and the added meaning created through sewing them together, I try to guide viewers in reading these necklaces, with phrases like ‘Honey Honey crisp,’ ‘Net WT. 4 lbs,’ and ‘Calories 200.’ I also deliberately keep my work ambiguous and open, aiming to provoke diverse interpretations and imagination. I named these necklaces, made from trash, ‘Jewelry’ to explore consumerism and exploitation.”
“I discover interesting text and labels by deconstructing food packaging. Considering both the original purpose of the labels and the added meaning created through sewing them together, I try to guide viewers in reading these necklaces, with phrases like ‘Honey Honey crisp,’ ‘Net WT. 4 lbs,’ and ‘Calories 200.’ I also deliberately keep my work ambiguous and open, aiming to provoke diverse interpretations and imagination. I named these necklaces, made from trash, ‘Jewelry’ to explore consumerism and exploitation.”
Jewelry - 8 necklaces(2025), waste food packaging bags.
"Labels are charged symbols. When I wear them, I label myself. Labeling, whether applied to food, luxury goods, or women, implies pricing and consumption."
"Labels are charged symbols. When I wear them, I label myself. Labeling, whether applied to food, luxury goods, or women, implies pricing and consumption."
Jewelry - WT. 4 lbs. (2025), 32x32cm, waste food packaging bags.
This work is an exploration beyond sight, expressed through tactile and intuitive means. It exposes the environmental, physical, and psychological damage caused by consumerism.
This work is an exploration beyond sight, expressed through tactile and intuitive means. It exposes the environmental, physical, and psychological damage caused by consumerism.
Organ /Organic(2025), 60x40cm, waste food packaging mesh bags, black scarf.
Using “Oxymoronic making”, Wenjie embraces the dynamic complexity of contradictions, creating visual tension and enhancing emotional resonance through morphologically nuanced narratives in which explicit and implicit expressions lend multiple meanings to her work. She deliberately keeps them ambiguous to provoke diverse interpretations, dialogue, and reflection.
Using “Oxymoronic making”, Wenjie embraces the dynamic complexity of contradictions, creating visual tension and enhancing emotional resonance through morphologically nuanced narratives in which explicit and implicit expressions lend multiple meanings to her work. She deliberately keeps them ambiguous to provoke diverse interpretations, dialogue, and reflection.
She & I know you
“I discover interesting text and labels by deconstructing food packaging. Considering both the original purpose of the labels and the added meaning created through sewing them together, I try to guide viewers in reading these necklaces, with phrases like ‘Honey Honey crisp,’ ‘Net WT. 4 lbs,’ and ‘Calories 200.’ I also deliberately keep my work ambiguous and open, aiming to provoke diverse interpretations and imagination. I named these necklaces, made from trash, ‘Jewelry’ to explore consumerism and exploitation.”
"Labels are charged symbols. When I wear them, I label myself. Labeling, whether applied to food, luxury goods, or women, implies pricing and consumption."
This work is an exploration beyond sight, expressed through tactile and intuitive means. It exposes the environmental, physical, and psychological damage caused by consumerism.
Using “Oxymoronic making”, Wenjie embraces the dynamic complexity of contradictions, creating visual tension and enhancing emotional resonance through morphologically nuanced narratives in which explicit and implicit expressions lend multiple meanings to her work. She deliberately keeps them ambiguous to provoke diverse interpretations, dialogue, and reflection.

About

Wenjie Feng works across a variety of media. Her practice draws on visual tension through “oxymoronic making,” exploring how consumerism fuels desire and produces consequences from a daily-life perspective, with a focus on feminism and environmental sustainability.

Inspired by female artists engaging with materiality in gender, femininity, feminism, and by her own design background, she regarded waste food packaging as objects. To her, objects carry histories and meanings. She plays with waste materials, allowing them to engage with her themes by making necklaces titled “Jewelry” and other works that reveal life’s absurdity, challenge conventions, and critically explore female identity, intimacy, consumption, and exploitation.

 

Bio

Wenjie Feng (b. Kunming, China) is a Chinese American based in London. Her practice spread across painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and moving image. She graduated from Southwest University of Fine Arts, also studied fashion at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, and worked as a graphic and interior designer. In 2025, she completed the RCA Graduate Diploma in Fine Art and will begin the MA Contemporary Art Practice at RCA.

 

 

Email: wenjiefeng3@gmail.com

Instagram:@wenjiefengart 

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