Group Exhibition Project - Untitled

Rising Artists Works (R.A.W.!) commissioned curator Wang Yiquans group exhibition Untitled departs from a sustainable perspective and echoes his recent research in the creative practices of his peer artist community in China. The curatorial concept of Untitled pursues from Wangs exhibition project Fellows(2022), held at the SNAP, the School of Visual Arts Art Platform in Shanghai, and it continues exploring the diverse visual lexicon and generational phenomena of Chinas Post - 80s artists.*Participating Artists (in alphabetical order by surname): 33EMYBW, Geng Yini, Fang Di, He Qiwo, Huang Cheng, Li Tingwei, Yan Yibo, Zou Chen Wang YiquanWang Yiquan is a curator and artist active in the field of contemporary art in China. His creative practice and research interests are focused on image production, film, performance, the cultural identity of the post-80s generation, and urbanism. For more than a decade, Wang Yiquan has been dedicated to addressing a variety of interrelated complex issues, and his artistic approach and practice are diverse yet highly integrated. He has curated thematic exhibitions at several art institutions, including the Rencontres dArle (Arles, France, 2023), Shanghai International Film Festival (Shanghai, 2023), Jimei×Arles International Photo Festival (Xiamen, 2022), Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2021), Contemporary Theatre Biennale/ ShenzhenFutian (Shenzhen, 2018), Shanghai Urban Space Art Season (Shanghai, 2017), and Beijing Design Week (Beijing, 2016), among others.Wang Yiquan, born in 1987 in Beijing, China, currently works and lives in Shanghai and Beijing. He studied at Beijing International Studies University, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and Central Saint Martins College of Art. He is also a founding partner of Active Space Design Studio.

Visual Arts 2023

Solo Exhibition Project - Unnamed Road

This exhibition is ZHOU Songkais personal project, curated by GUO Yujia and LYU Yinuo as executive curator. The visual-audio assemblage of artists painting and moving image summon the site as a road of walking.When the road stretches itself to its end,it is the moment that the road begins-----reciprocates as such. Such reciprocation means lingering in this alienated but acquainted field, as if a vagrancy in homeland. Viewers wander here, and the works here reveal and open themselves in their regarding on this walking road, hence the very time the name of this unnamed road is summoned. Zhou SongkaiZhou Songkai was born in Henan, China in 1992. He studied filmmaking, literature and aesthetics at the China Academy of Art and the Royal College of Art. His works focus on the dialogue between the individual existential condition and the collective memory of public life. He continuously explores and inquires about the kinship between natural elements and human beings, as well as the historical traces of landscapes and objects in the living space of the current technological era. The road serves as a metaphorical imagery in his works, weaving the individuals personal experience of fate and freedom, existence and emptiness. His works span a diverse range of forms such as poetry, painting, film, photography and other artistic media. In his film works, he utilises non-logical implicit narrative to explore the visual poetics of cinematography in the flow of time.

Visual Arts 2023