Sean Ali Wang

王申

Sean Ali Wang is a Hui-Chinese film director and visual artist born in 1991 and grew up in Beijing. He currently lives in Den Haag.  

In the last decade, he has straddled the border between China and Europe, researching on Chinese diaspora, Sino-European relations, Occidentalism, Sinophonic Cosmopolitanism, and power shifts in globalization through ethnographic moving image works mainly made in China, Greece, Italy, and Brazil. His works also reflect his own identity as an ethnic minority from a Chinese Muslim family whose three main members are scattered on three continents. 

Besides his single-channel big-screen cinema practice, he also explores other possibilities to present moving images more spatially, object-oriented and interdisciplinarily. This led to the making of his multi-screen video installations that share the same subjects with his documentary film works.