Ziyi Wei

魏子祎 Wei Ziyi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), originally from Guiyang, Guizhou. Her practice examines how feminine identity is shaped, adorned, and commodified within the structures of global capitalism.

Working across sculpture, painting, and moving image, Wei explores the entangled relationship between bodily autonomy and ornamental excess. Drawing from a fluid, cross-cultural perspective that resists fixed Oriental or Occidental positions, her work navigates the psychic weight of objectification and the porous boundaries between surface and self. Ornamentation becomes both her material and method—a semiotic code through which power, desire, and identity are continually negotiated.