Issue #12 / Talent / Jiuliang Wang

Beijing resident Jiuliang Wang has sought to to document the intimate yet ordinary stories of the private sphere. The seed for his work Private Space was sewn as he stayed in a hotel and began to imagine those who had lain in that very bed before him. Wang was quite overwhelmed by a desire to seek traces of these people like him, and admits to becoming aroused as he lay there imagining the stories played out there, not the first to be affected by the heady scent of hotel sex (and its attendant sense of death).