Art & Fable Puzzle Company People’s Choice Award

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2026

Bojun Wei

Title:

“Do Bionic Sharks Dream of Cyborgs?” 

Medium & Dimensions:

Oil on canvas, 162 x 130cm

About the Artist

Wei Bojun (b. 2003, Taichung, Taiwan) is a contemporary artist who graduated from the Fine Arts Department at the National Taichung University of Education. In his creative practice, he combines techniques of concrete realism in oil painting to present deeply surreal environments on the canvas. Wei’s work operates within an expanding worldview that explores the complex psychological states of future civilizations—capturing both a profound technological anxiety and a nostalgic longing for retro-futuristic aesthetics. Central to his current inquiry is the blurring boundary between bionic and organic structures. By investigating the inner spiritual worlds of artificial life, his paintings question whether an artificial being can possess a soul once physical and sensory differences vanish. Through these themed depictions, Wei observes the delicate interplay between technology and humanity across different temporal dimensions.

“Do Bionic Sharks Dream of Cyborgs?”: Forgotten Tales explores the shifting nature of symbols through a contemporary synthesis of myth, legend, and archetypal imagery. By combining human and animal forms in an ambiguous, emotionally charged space, the work invites multiple readings rather than a fixed narrative. It reflects my interest in how different cultures interpret the same symbols in different ways, revealing meaning as something fluid, unstable, and continuously reshaped by memory, perception, and collective experience.