Whitney Biennial 2022: 
Quiet as It’s Kept

Floor 6

Born 1986 in USA
Lives in New York, NY

WangShui is invested in posthuman consciousness, which they conceive of as a re-entanglement among animals, environments, humans, and machines. The LED sculptures and aluminum paintings presented here were co-authored by the artist and AI (artificial intelligence) programs. The content displayed on the LEDs is produced with customized GANs (generative adversarial networks), a form of machine learning where neural networks are “trained” to generate imagery from existing information. For the paintings, the artist and AI programs participate in a feedback loop of gestures, forms, and colors. From each individual LED pixel to the aluminum panels and ceiling structure, the installation is composed of what WangShui has described as “interdependent modular particles.”