Dreams
This ongoing series created by Dongyi Wu draws from dreams as fields of intensity, where images appear not as symbols or stories, but as conditions that generate tension, direction, and transformation.
Dinner
Dinner suspends a set dining table above intersecting railway tracks, holding a quiet scene on the edge of rupture. When worn, the oval structure encircles the body, extending this pressure into a continuous field of tension between body, object, and imagined environment.
Dinner
Year: 2024
Category: Wearable Sculpture
Dimension: 35.7”x11.7”x2.8” (90.6x29.8x7.1cm)
Materials: cloth pins, copper, brass, low carbon steel, steel nails, pencils, pipe brackets, acrylic paint
Floating Face
Facial features drift within a Magritte-like window frame, while the body transforms into a house with a hip roof. The work turns the figure into a shifting structure, caught between body, shelter, and surreal displacement.
Floating Face
Year: 2026
Category: Wearable Sculpture
Dimension: 26.75"x11.4"x2.0"
Materials: Used pillow case, used curtain, used Marshalls bag, used zippers, used clothes, vinyl, embroidery threads, sewing thread, snaps, polyester fill, mirror sheet
Eternal Dream
This work emerges from a dream-like maze, like an endless detective story without beginning or resolution. Scattered manuscript-like papers repeat the image of a fruit cut in half, whose pointed form seems about to become a compass. Yet the system never fully resolves; the work stays suspended in the moment before orientation is formed, where clues accumulate without revealing a final direction.
Eternal Dream
Year: 2018
Category: Necklace
Dimension: 20''x5''x1.25'' (50.8x12.7x3.18cm)
Materials: Fabric, sterling silver, copper, clay, sand, plastic sheets
Impression
Recent explorations in Wu’s practice focus on how invisible states—pressure, accumulation, emergence, and intensity—become visible through material and form. Rather than representing places or events, recent works use impression as a sculptural approach to translating atmosphere into physical experience.
Salt Brine
Salt Brine was created for the invitational exhibition Southern Comfort, curated by Lydia Elsa Martin, Chelsea Nanfelt Rowe, and Myriam Saavedra. Drawing from Wu’s impressions of the American South, the work evokes dense color, heat, noise, and exaggeration. Rubber ducks gather into a vivid focal mass, while heat-flattened fragments spread outward like residue in brine, suggesting an atmosphere in which intensity slowly seeps through everything.
Salt Brine
Year: 2026
Category: Necklace/Tie
Dimension: 29.1“x4.7”x2.4” (74.0x12.0x6.0cm)
Materials: Rubber ducks, ribbons, sewing threads