Feiran Wang

Feiran Wang was born in HuangShan, China. She lives and works in Irvine, California. Coming from a family of architects, Wang came to Los Angeles, United States in 2014, to study for her master’s degree in architecture design. She won the thesis merit prize for redesigning and modeling her grandparents’ house based on forms and textures of mutated chickens, meant as a gift for her deceased grandpa. Soon after graduation, Wang has dedicated herself as the artist of Mutated Chicken.

I hold myself fortunate on account of once having a chicken born with an underdeveloped third leg, living in a coop of my grandparents’ remote suburban home in my not so remote childhood. The chicken, that left enormous visual impact on me as a little kid, was destined to become the ontological precursor of my artistic essence and later the centerpiece of my artistic opus. The iconic ‘stink eye’ of the mutated chicken is a copy of my own facial mimic that I, in my childhood, repetitively expressed towards others when they failed to fulfil my desires. While working on various mediums including paintings, sculptures, prints and digital, I apply mutated chicken to every subject I am interested in. With the assistance of advanced computer technology and various software, mutated chicken, made of contemporary materials through manufacturing process, is able to exist in more possible visual forms in the 21st century than ever. To me, mutated chicken manifests childishness and the happiest memory of my childhood, a memory that I would love to spend my lifetime within, to repetitively recall and rebuild it.