taipei/london/paris, United Kingdom
Born in Taipei in 1988, Shiwei is of both French and Taiwanese nationalities. Since the age of three...
About the artist
Joined In 2010
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About the artist
Joined In 2010
(5 Followers)
Born in Taipei in 1988, Shiwei is of both French and Taiwanese nationalities. Since the age of three, she has been living in between Taiwan, France, and the United States. She started Fine Art studies at the Sorbonne University, and at the Ateliers de la Mairie de Paris, then attended the London College of Communication, where she started a "Design for Interaction and Moving Image" BA. She then deepened her knowledge of Chinese language and culture at her birth place. She works in multiple media, including photography, video, performance, drawing, painting, blending ancestral techniques with emerging technologies.
"Art as a portal"
Shiwei is above all an autodidact. Influenced by the freedom of creativity granted by her teachers at the Ateliers de la Mairie de Paris, she developed her own understanding on arts. It appeared to her that suggestion allows the public to think, while provocation aims at telling them what to think. She aspires to push boundaries and transgress the conventions within the art world. Close to the Sensualist philosophy, she creates new visual contexts in order to give us access to emotions and knowledge. Although Shiwei fluently speaks three languages, including two of the most spoken in the world, s...
2008/2012- Bachelor GMD Interaction and Moving Image at University of the Arts London, LCC (UK)
2011- Mandarin Language Study at Taipei Normal University (TW)
2006/07- Bachelor year one in Fine Art at Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris 1 (FR) - Fine Art practice at Atelier des Beaux Art de la Mairie de Paris (FR)