"After years of using tape to give herself double eyelids — considered a mark of beauty alongside traits like porcelain skin and a tapered chin..."

"Wang was even more unsatisfied with her appearance and opted to undergo double eyelid surgery while in college. She remembers feeling like a doll being stitched together and was immediately inspired to create art involving needles.As for her decision to focus on the chest: 'During that surgery, the doctor said to me, Your breasts are quite flat; would you like to consider breast surgery? So I chose breasts as the subject [of my art],' Wang recalls.... Wang intends her works to query rather than overtly criticize. 'I am more posing a question, dissecting an issue into pieces that I can understand, and then seeing whether others have the same feelings,' she says. The felted breasts, for instance, allude to the violence behind mass-produced beauty in a modern Chinese society that narrowly defines attractiveness and pressures women to achieve these ideals at any cost.... [The recorded] sound of needle felting [gives] the audience a sense of hidden violence and discomfort in an implicit way... When I played the felting sound for American audiences, they thought it sounded like a man masturbating or making love. Something that looks cute, fluffy, and pink can also be tied to violence, sex, and the inferior status of women."

From "Pink Bits: Feminist Pop Artist Peels Back Skin, Shame, Stigma/Wang Weijue’s felted wool breasts and other works evoke longstanding beauty standards and current events" (in Sixth Tone ("Fresh Voices from Today's China")).