
ShanghART Beijing is honoured to present the exhibition Lie Between, which will showcase video installation works by Cao Shu, Yao Qingmei and Yin Yunya. The artists have focused on the general situation of individuals in modern society from different perspectives, in a manner that echoes the deconstruction and reconfiguration of time and space through the camera, as well as the metaphorical virtualisation of reality. They have used multiple media to explore the subtleties and complexities between individuals and groups, discipline and resistance, and disconnection and symbiosis.
Physical space gains social significance through its functional role as a site for human interaction. Exhibition space, by dissolving rigid boundaries via artwork displays, become continuously generative, mobile fields. These works involve artists and performers—both present and absent—while inviting viewers to engage the space through embodied perception. The notion of “subject” defies singular definition within the immediate site, instead performing a polyphonic enactment of tensions—between collectives and individuals, within societal structures of entanglement and alienation, dependence and defiance.
As we expect an interactive communication process, but can a dialogue based on cognitive unity be realised? The challenge of traversing the boundaries that constitute diverse ‘subject’ identities underscores the inherent complexity of such encounters. The fundamental purpose of the media, as elucidated by its very genesis, is to facilitate communication, thereby offering a means to visually represent or apprehend that which is often obscured from the purview of the uninitiated. Artists have been known to integrate multi-dimensional knowledge systems into their creations through multiple media and construct art scenes that can be physically perceived. As the distance between interlocutors becomes more apparent, the boundaries of language and cognition begin to dissipate.




ShanghART gallery was initiated in 1996 in Shanghai. It has since grown to become one of China’s most influential art institutions and a vital resource to the development of contemporary art in China with two spaces in 50 Moganshan Road (Main Space and H-Space), a public warehouse space in West of Shanghai (ShanghART Taopu), and a gallery space in Beijing and representing over 40 artists.
Being recognized for its importance ShanghART became the initial gallery from China participating in major international art fairs like Art Basel and Fiac, Paris. ShanghART gallery also enjoys the great respect of being among the 75 most influencial galleries selected in Thames & Hudson’s publication ‘International Art Galleries: Post-war to Post-millennium.’

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