Wang Taocheng is a peculiar person. Straddling lines between male and female, cosmic and material, mimetic and fantastic, his work draws power from dynamic contradictions that suggest more than they create. Many artworks are marked as “ personal ”, in Wang Taocheng’s case, it would be more true to say that his personal life is  “ artistic ” His de-familiarized theater of the absurd hints at something more real than real, more fantastic than fantasy. The power of art lies in its ability to provide alternate perspectives, structures of feeling, about our lives.
 
Without a firm grounding in solid reality, fantasy is nothing. If art
is the expression of a search for truth, in which the mimetic and fantastic combine, Wang Taocheng’s re-imaginings of daily life perform a special truth-telling function. His world is eerily familiar to ours, with its gossipy neighbors and self-absorbed bystanders who see themselves as stars of their own stories.