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Step Back is an extension project of Wang's No Such Person Found (2019-2021) series. Having moved to the Brixton area of London, she has turned her focus to the marginalised groups that live here and the common elements that shape their identities.

Wang uses multiple media, including sculpture and images, to explore the group's psychological alienation and connection to society. What these people feel in the midst of their social alienation is a sense of powerlessness within the system, as if their bodies are being erased and forgotten by society. The fox that travels through the neighbourhood at night incidentally enters her lens, symbolising the state of the marginalised - alienated yet interdependent with society, close yet not fully integrated. On one side, a muddy telephone receiver attempts to connect us to the marginalised, with a fifteen-minute sound piece derived from a large number of daily fragments collected by the artist while travelling in the community. On the other side, the swollen feet on the rough asphalt pavement and the patches of rust on the surface symbolise bruises and scars, alluding to the fatigue of migration, the heavy burden of integrating into a new culture, and the pain and lesions of the progress of social acceptance.