Hanyu Wang/ Figurative Art

Hanyu Wang is a multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in London. Her practice spans body-based performance, installation, and site-specific interventions. Centering rope bondage as her primary artistic language, she explores the entanglement between control, intimacy, ecology, and power, merging Eastern corporeal aesthetics with contemporary performance vocabularies to create restrained yet highly charged sensory experiences. Influenced by eco-feminism and body politics, she engages with rope bondage as a healing medium, shifting it from private settings into public discourse to amplify the visibility of queer bodies.

Bound in Stillness, 2023

Performance with photographic documentation (in collaboration with photographer Jiawen “Jiji” Wei)

Bound in Stillness is a durational performance project, conceived and realized as a rope bondage artist Hanyu Wang, photographed by artist Jiawen Wei, and presented as a series of analog darkroom prints. The work centered on the embodied experience of anxiety disorders and examined how normative societal structures shaped and disciplined neurodiverse individuals.