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Intro： Wang Junqi was born in Zhengzhou, China, and graduated from Shanghai University of Engineering Science with a degree in Fashion Design. Currently based between Shanghai and Zhengzhou, the practice spans digital moving image, spatial installation, fashion, virtual narratives, and mixed media, exploring the relationship between individuals and larger structures. Rooted in experiences from central China, migration, labor, family, and social mobility have become recurring points of departure. Rather than categorizing individuals through fixed identities, the work observes human conditions within different structures: when labor, technology, capital, and social evaluation continuously shape everyday life, how are individuals defined, perceived, and able to regain a sense of agency? The practice develops from the idea of “the human within structures.” Labor systems reshape the relationship between the body and time; technological systems redefine the boundaries of expression and freedom; value systems enter individual consciousness and form internal judgments. Through the intersection of lived experience and speculative futures, the work transforms hidden structural relationships into perceptible and inhabitable visual experiences through image, space, and narrative. In terms of visual and narrative approach, the practice organizes perception through restraint. Time is treated as a material, while rhythm, pause, and repetition become part of the structure of experience. Rather than providing definitive answers, the work creates open spaces between the visible and invisible, allowing experiences obscured by efficiency, acceleration, and systems of evaluation to gradually emerge.