Lisson Gallery’s summer exhibitions continue the gallery’s long-running commitment to presenting new art and new approaches to art as defined by guest curators. This year, curator Victor Wang offers a fresh interpretation and alternate trajectory for the development and genealogy of dangdai yishu (the Chinese phrase for ‘contemporary art’) as an open and discursive term, rather than a temporal or geographical definition. Taking a critical distance from established movements and narratives, ‘Afterimage: Dangdai Yishu’ brings together work by several generations of artists born between 1960 and 1990.
Employing a framework of critical research rather than prior validation and repositioning both Chinese and Euro-American assumptions, ‘Afterimage: Dangdai Yishu’ attempts an overdue appreciation of the impact and lineage of what Wang calls the ‘post-figurative condition’ or ‘hou juxiang zhuangtai’.
Participating artists: aaajiao, Li Binyuan, Lin Tianmiao, Ma Qiusha, Wang Youshen, Xiang Jing, Shen Xin, Yu Hong, Zhao Zhao
Curator: Victor Wang
Exhibition time: July 3 – Sept 7, 2019
Venue: LISSON GALLERY LONDON(67 Lisson Street & 27 Bell Street London)
Work by Xiang Jing: <Whole Dark>, <Slipping, Ticktock Ticktock>