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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
Reigning Heads
Luyi Wang
An exhibition and mural
​at Street Road

Installation 4/2018
Opening reception at Street Road, 5/19/2018, 4-8pm
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​Exhibition of drawings by Luyi Wang at The Little Free Library Cochranville 3/27 - August 2018. 

Mural Installation by Kien Nguyen and Emily White, with
special thanks to Mason.
This mural by illustrator and artist Luyi Wang (b. Tsingtao, China) began with an image from her 2017 artist's book Reigning Heads, a surreal and dystopian story that reflects upon the ways in which modern society has become increasingly apathetic and self-serving.

This text, told through a series of paper-collage drawings, builds a world filled with the Beings, who care about nothing but themselves, and the Heads, who exploit this self-involvement for their own ends. The mural design is based on the last page of this book and alludes to what is for the artist the tale's happy ending: the Beings and Heads blend together, evolving into a type of new creature, one that cares about the environment and animals, and especially, one that respects love. Amplifying and also building on the book's content, this mural as installed at Street Road represents diversity, echoing Luyi's belief that 'there is no doubt that we will be stronger and happier when we hold each other’s hands'.

Luyi Wang earned her BA in Camberwell College of Art in London and her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art. She creates whimsical and childlike works addressing social issues. Her work has been published in The New York Times and other media outlets; she has won several awards and has exhibited in New York, London, Beijing, Cremona, Culver City, etc. She likes collage, hiking and dogs. | luyiwangart.com | Instagram: @luyiwangart
An interview with Luyi Wang, by educator and artist Sasha Boyle for Street Road.
With Luyi in NYC and Sasha at The Little Free Library Cochranville
Cold but fun Spring days of installation at Street Road:
Mural installation time lapse. Thank you to artists Kien Nguyen and Emily White, with special thanks to Mason - woof!
Early process drawings and work from Luyi's original artists book:

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A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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