Twins, Twilight, and Apple Tree

Artist Zhiqian Wang brings together works in installation, painting, sculpture, and video to explore how we use language to gauge reality and create meaning in our world. Centered around the title’s three themes of doubleness, belief, and knowledge, Wang’s exhibition crafts a playground for the imagination and a game of choose-your-own-adventure. Inviting viewer participation, the works ask us to consider the limits of human reasoning in explaining our universe, and the role of individual agency in creating new possibilities.

Zhiqian Wang is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, painting, video, sound, performance, and installation. Her current practice examines and expands our conception of material reality via ordinary language, narrative, and cinematic devices. Through her interests in physics and philosophy, she investigates concepts such as randomness, causality, rationality, games, and knowledge.

The Piano Craft Gallery, Inc, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is located in a historic Boston landmark and works to eliminate common barriers to accessing the arts such as race, education level, and class by guiding our operation through an anti-racist and inclusive lens. The Piano Craft Gallery, Inc. does this by sharing, promoting, and celebrating the work of racially, culturally, and socio-economically diverse artists of all abilities with the public.