Yan Wang Preston review – gloriously confronting art history in the nude

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Review of the exhibition Yan Wang Preston: Three Easier Pieces by Charlotte Jansen, published on the Guardian on 2 May 2024. 

This new body of works is a more direct, confrontational and daring look at this relationship between the land and bodies. Using photography to reconstruct iconic paintings has been done before – but Wang Preston does it with precision, confidence and clarity. This exhibition is also about a woman standing her ground, against the elements, in the face of an environment that is often hostile towards her body. But if history is made in images – it can be remade in images, too.