Xuecong Wang is a multimedia artist from China, based in New York City. Her practice begins with a premise, an unlikely proposition she takes seriously for the length of a work, and follows it into the unresolved states it opens. She works across watercolour, sculpture, ceramic, and installation.

During the residency, Xuecong Wang is working on Wolf Peach, a project inspired by the hearsay that 16th-century witches used tomato (Lycopersicon, wolf peach) in the ointment that turned them into werewolves, and from it she builds a contemporary myth of a female werewolf. Tomato and werewolf share a history: each was moved from wild to legible under changing systems of classification, and Wang finds the same sorting at work in people. Impulse, emotion, and conviction escape rational governance, and a person who carries them is called wild, all the more readily if she is a woman. The works borrow power dynamics from historical painting across cultures, and use the archival format against its institutional purpose, granting fantastical objects the authority it reserves for fact.

Wolf Peach treats wildness not as a property belonging to a creature but as a verdict issued by whatever system is doing the sorting. The werewolf's existence marks an alternative reality in which wildness is admitted: confessed, let in, allowed to stand as evidence.