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wen gum gum (b. 1994, Taipei) is a Taiwanese artist whose practice centers on painting and video installation, grounded in a research-based exploration of visual culture. Her work examines how mass media constructs public ideology and idealized images, especially regarding gender representation.
Through image-making, she investigates emotional states, inner spirituality, and internet-driven absurdity. Often featuring fragmented or bodiless figures, her practice critiques objectification while reimagining agency and presence.
Over the past five years, wen gum gum has developed a body of work informed by feminist and queer theory—especially the politics of pleasure and visibility. Embracing distortion, theatricality, and irony, her figures resist conventional portrayals of femininity, functioning as tools for decoding cultural codes and expanding the boundaries of identity.
Her solo exhibition Good Will Hunting (2022, FreeS Art Space, Taipei) explored bodily pleasure through camp aesthetics and feminist critique. In 2023, Of Mice and Women (Back.Y Gallery, Taipei) extended these questions by examining the spectacle of the bodiless female form, fetishization, and queer visuality. In 2025, her focus shifts to visual essays, marginalized queer strategies, and the critical language of contemporary image-making.
In addition to her studio practice, wen gum gum is a graphic t-shirt designer and zine publisher, using independent print media to share visual experiments and cultural commentary. Her work has recently been exhibited in Tokyo, Metro Manila, Switzerland, and Denmark.
她特別關注大眾媒體如何塑造角色，聚焦於性別角色的狹隘建構，並以變形的人體與其內在感受作為創作主體。她的作品融合視覺藝術批評、邊緣酷兒群體的美學策略與視覺散文的語言，構築出個人化的圖像思辨系統。
近年個展包括：2022年《善的意志會狩獵 Good Will Hunting》，探討女性主義與酷兒理論中享樂政治的爭議地帶；2023年《老鼠並不笨 Of Mice and Women》，透過無軀體的女性人物延伸性別意義的多重想像；2025年《分心的種類 Mind the Mindless》，延續文字錯譯所開啟的詮釋空間，聚焦「無心之人」，以蘇珊・桑塔格所提出的坎普（camp）感性為起點，透過酷兒視角持續探索當代圖像的複數閱讀方式。
2026至2028年間，她計畫申請於歐洲或其他合適地點舉辦展覽，進一步拓展其創作實踐與跨語境的對話可能。