Wu Xiaoran's works primarily concern the relationship between image and history, using painting as a traditional cartographic method to open the gap between the two.
History relays what happened in the past through oral narratives, texts, and pictures, yet the space between the real and the carrier is often overlooked due to the passage of time. Through a hand-drawn image of a specious frame from history, he attempts to make the viewer experience the gap between existence and narrative. Thus, the cracks in time and space are torn, and the camouflage of history is pierced. An image takes on a place of its own, and a story of the past is rewritten.
1986年生于杭州，2019年于皇家艺术学院获得当代艺术硕士学位，现工作与生活在上海。
吴啸然的创作主要关心图像和历史之间的关系，利用绘画这一传统制图方式企图打开两者之间的缝隙。
历史通过口述、文字和图像作为载体，转述着过去发生的故事，然而真实和载体的缝隙往往因为时间的流逝而被忽略。借由历史中似是而非的一帧图片被手绘制，他的作品企图让观众体会存在和叙事之间的缝隙。至此，时空的裂缝被撕扯，历史的伪装被戳穿。图像拥有了自身的位置，而过去的故事也被重新书写。
Exhibitions:
2023
Painting Tiny Times, 33ml Offspace, Shanghai
7th John Moores Painting Prize (China) Exhibition, TAG art museum, Tsingtao
7th John Moores Painting Prize (China) Exhibition, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai
2021
Hereditary Territory, Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai
Dear Someone, GDA Hanhouse Art Gallery, Hangzhou
2020
‘Phase Transition’, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
“天真之歌与经验之歌” ‘Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience’, TX Huaihai, Shanghai
2019
Venus in Fur, TX Huaihai Showroom, Shanghai
Orbit Art Show, Bargehouse, London
Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
'Ten Metaphor', Safehouse, London
'Terminal O', The Horse Hospital, London
'CAPbaret' performance marathon, RCA Gorvy Theatre, London
'Queuing on Stairs', The Crypt Gallery, London
2018
'CAPbaret' performance marathon, RCA Gorvy Theatre, London
'WIP Show', Royal College of Art, London
2016
'一人一格，36', 画英雄ART, Hangzhou
'Start from China', Hillside Terrace Gallery, Tokyo