Photographing is an intimate process in which the images become instilled as a part of my experience. While capturing, there is a sense of serenity and surrendering from space and time. Tony Wang feels “removed from the past and the future,” he asserts when explaining his relation to the photographic act. In that moment, the perception of space blurs as he gets lost in the most minute details of the current moment. Photography then becomes an alternate experience in search of something intimate and beautiful.

“I don’t exactly know what I am searching for when I pick up a camera, but I lose the pressure of conscious thinking and let my body react to the ambiance around me. The photographic process is a performative exercise. My body becomes a vehicle for the senses as I lose myself in the complex web of sound, visuals, texture, and touch. I am surprised by what I could capture while lost.”

Unfinished Epilogue is an ongoing project that is not only a sensory exercise about being lost, but it is about remembering and curating the experiences of when Wang feels one with his senses. By montaging cropped compositions of mundane daily occurrences and staged narratives that makeup how he experiences the world, he aims to connect the fragments from my memories to form a web of new information. Unfinished Epilogue provides these visual interludes for viewers to look, recollect, and discover the intricacies of the interconnectedness of their lived experiences through a personal lens.

Tony Wang is a New York-based visual artist and director. Wang’s photographic works lie on the intersection between collecting cropped compositions from daily moments and staged experiences with collaborators. He seeks to explore the experiential quality of photography as a medium. Wang’s recent series Unfinished Epilogue focuses on archiving materials and assembling them to reflect the nature of how he sees, and how the process of curating can create new experiences. Wang was awarded the Silver award at the Prix de la Photographie competition and the Bronze award by the Photographic Society of America. His works are featured in BOOOOOOOM, Aint-Bad, Aesthetica Magazine, New York Magazine, Cultured Magazine, and Fisheye Magazine. He exhibited at the Colorado Convention center, CO; Asia Society Museum, New York; The Other Art Fair, New York; The Holy Arts Gallery, London, UK; and Praxis gallery, Minnesota. Wang has built a reputation for using the moving body and camera to express intimate emotions in his films. He is adept at making both experimental art films and documentary shorts. Wang’s unique visual language propelled his projects to garner the Best Documentary Shorts award at the NYLA International film festival, Longlist at Shiny Awards, and Official Selection at the Academy Award qualifying Urbanworld Film Festival. His projects are featured on online platforms like NOWNESS, Berlin Commercial, Directors Notes and BOOOOOOOM TV.