Wang Ley
ENG
Meta-Biosphere, 2026
Clay, luster, driftwood, wool yarn, soda, hand-building, press molding, knitting, coiling, video, 800~1240℃, 240 x 160 x 180cm.
《Meta-Biosphere》 is an installation that unfolds, as a single nonlinear ecosystem, the process by which energy either stays in one place or moves on to another entity. The work takes as its starting point "Biosphere 2," an artificial-ecosystem experiment begun in 1991. Aiming for complete self-sufficiency and circulation, the experiment revealed its limits when internal energy flow failed to stay stable and oxygen levels dropped. Wang Ley looks at the failure of this "closed paradise" and asks: if energy inside a system cut off from the outside world can no longer flow, why does its ending lead to extinction rather than survival?
Building on this question, she unfolds, within a single ecosystem, both "fixation"—where energy stays within a form and hardens—and "transition"—where energy breaks free of its existing form to connect with, and move toward, other beings. The exhibition space is structured as an equilateral triangle, and visitors follow the movement and circulation of energy as they pass the "swamp," "cocoon," and "tree of bones" arranged along its three sides.
