ShanghART Gallery will present over ten works by three artists at the upcoming Photofairs Shanghai.
Among them is the photographic series "Sparrow on the Sea", derived from the black-and-white film of the same name by artist Yang Fudong, commissioned by M+ Museum. Referencing the visual motifs and textures of classic Hong Kong cinema from the 1970s to the 1990s, the work intertwines moments of Hong Kong’s past and present, offering a glimpse into an unpredictable future.
Artist Jiang Pengyi will showcase his latest series "Consumption & Renewal". Through experiments with various chemical substances, he captured their subtle reactions over two years. Using macro photography, these fleeting chemical processes are frozen in time, ultimately revealing vast, time-forged landscapes.
Born in 1989, artist Zhang Wenxin identifies herself as a "topographic architect", also an explorer. Her works stem from expeditions through forests and caves, as well as her study and reinterpretation of terrain. Natural landscapes have no true beginning or end—only cycles of collapse and reformation. Time flows in nonlinear ways, disrupting conventional notions of origin and conclusion.