Fotografiska Museum Shanghai

Spanning photography, video, text, spatial installations, and stage plays, Liu Shiyuan's artistic practice reveals a profound exploration and interrogation of the intricate interplay between images and narratives. The exhibition features photography series and video works, encapsulating the artist’s creative journey over the past decade.

Among magnificent images of Marco Brambilla, the collective storytelling consciousness under specific popular cultural context is being reappropriated. Characters and scenes sampled from Hollywood cinema which represent for collective storytelling consciousness are given new implications, satirizing the overproduction under excessive consumption and images of oversaturation that overload senses. The fusion of cutting-edge technology and artistic creativity, highlighted through the integration of 3D elements and visual effects, have been pivotal in bringing Marco Brambilla's grand artistic vision to life. Using innovative techniques to re-imagine popular culture imagery, Brambilla challenges our perceptions and invites us to contemplate the intersections of the past, present, and future. Through his digital realms and immersive narratives, he transports us into a realm where reality and fiction blur.

In the early ‘90s, Shanghai was going through a change like never before, some of the countless new things that transformed the city's landscape, people's lives, and even their relationships with one another. Amidst the changing urban landscape mixed with the old and the new, Robert van der Hilst captured the group portraits of people in different spaces of Shanghai at that particular time though his lens.