Our intermediate world
Eight Chinese artists are showing oil paintings, photography, installation and video art in the exhibition “World History” at Tang Contemporary Art, on the third floor of the Golden Place on Rajdamri Road.
In their works, Guo Hongwei, Wen Yipei, Jiang Pengyi, Shen Han, Guan Jun, Xu Qu, Hu Weiyi and Wang Mai reflect on capitalism, weaving a visual scene of the implications of world history from four conceptual perspectives: nature, the body, identity, and images. Through the intertextual relationships between the artworks, an historical, silhouetted relationship between capitalism and cosmopolitanism is presented.
For example, in Wang Mai’s works “Pearlescent No 2” and “Space Bodhisattva”, space technologies are portrayed as new national myths or ideologies in a world where we accept the position of instrumental rationality (science) in governing the world. Through the random presentation of pictures, Hu Weiyi’s video installation “Glance” very clearly shows this subjective intermediate world.
