“Whale Fall” is a light artwork by Xinyi Wang presented at Amsterdam Light Festival 2025 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
This enormous floating skeleton, hauled up from the ocean’s depths, brings the hidden world of the deep to the surface. Whale Fall explores the natural cycle of a whale’s death to reflect on the legacy of our biological and physical through a unique architectural form.
About Xinyi Wang
Xinyi Wang (AU, 1991) is a Sydney-based artist/architect born in Beijing. He founded XYTOPIA, his brainchild practice, to work from two simple anchors: X for the unknown, and Y for the why. Beginni...
Programme information from Amsterdam Light Festival. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.