Muhan Wang

Information Experience Design (MA)
Black-and-white portrait of Muhan Wang
Kate standing on a hill, watching horses in the distance. From Muhan Wang’s work Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops.
Kate standing on a hill, watching horses in the distance. From Muhan Wang’s work Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops.
Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops, 2025, essay film, narrative sculpture, feminist poetics, 28’28”
Installation view from Muhan Wang’s work.
Installation view from Muhan Wang’s work.
Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops, 2025, essay film, narrative sculpture, feminist poetics, 28’28”
Kate writing on a saddle in her room. From Muhan Wang’s work.
Kate writing on a saddle in her room. From Muhan Wang’s work.
Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops, 2025, essay film, narrative sculpture, feminist poetics, 28’28”
https://youtu.be/LHPMIQorbXM
Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops is a feminist reflection on how symbols of movement：horses, cars, saddles，have long stood in for women’s dreams of freedom. Yet these objects often carry a quiet contradiction: they promise escape, while remaining tightly bound to control, repetition, and performance. Blending essay film, sculpture, and voice, the work traces how fantasies are shaped in childhood，through toy horses, illustrated books, rocking horses， and how those dreams evolve in adult life, in bodies, tools, and memory. With Kate, an elderly woman who still lives with horses, the film turns toward aging, softness, and resilience. This is not a search for escape, but a re-reading of what freedom has been made of.
Kate standing on a hill, watching horses in the distance. From Muhan Wang’s work Some Horses Were Born in Toyshops.
Installation view from Muhan Wang’s work.
Kate writing on a saddle in her room. From Muhan Wang’s work.

About

Muhan is an installation and moving image artist whose work explores the tension between narrative, object, and the body. Her practice engages with visual storytelling, poetic form, and material memory, often drawing from feminist perspectives to question inherited structures of meaning. She works across essay film, sculpture, and text to construct fragile yet deliberate spatial experiences.

Muhan graduated with a BA in Art and Technology from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2022, and is currently completing her MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art.

 

Seeing the shimmering trees outside my window,

I find my mouth cannot quite close in that fleeting moment.

All my wishes for the world’s beauty

Gather in the puddle of drool on my pillow after a nap—

Desire, affection,

Mouth open,

Drool spilling,

Ideally dripping onto my feet

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