Evelyn Taocheng Wang on Class, Fantasy, and the Cultural Whore at Goldsmiths CCA

Evelyn Taocheng Wang's exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA examines the class-bound literary-English fantasies she absorbed while growing up in 1980s China. In a conversation conducted over fruit tarts at Maison Bertaux in Soho, the artist discusses her alter ego, the Cultural Whore, along with Merchant Ivory films and the question of who is permitted to be poetic. The show is presented at Goldsmiths CCA, and the interview appears in Ocula's magazine. Wang's practice is framed around the gap between the England she imagined through literature and film and the class-anchored realities of that cultural tradition. The conversation touches on the construction of her alter ego and the politics of poetic expression, asking who is granted access to poetic status. The exhibition is dated October 2026.