Wang Tuo: The Second Interrogation

The Second Interrogation is a two-part video installation based on the artist’s observations and reflections on cultural censorship in the art world in China in recent years. The titular work is a sequel to Wang’s preceding piece, Interrogation, which depicts the psychological methods of conducting interviews by a local commissioner for Discipline Inspection, who was himself once put into the position of an interviewee years ago.

The first part of the work consists of a two-channel video, and the second part a single channel.

In the 2022 rendition of The Second Interrogation, the artist envisions this dialectic in two extreme yet grounded positions where the artist becomes the censor, and the censor becomes the artist. Provoked by their different conjectures on the future developments of China, the censor and artist both begin a conscious shift in their identities.