ShanghART Beijing is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Lin Aojie Ponzi Scheme, opening on 20 May 2023. Following the artist's two solo shows in Beijing Those Who Like Playing Tricks Usually Don't Live a Good Life (2019) and How Do Artists Make a Living (2021), this exhibition marks the third chapter of Lin's artistic practice by bringing together his latest video, painting and text works.

Featuring casual and witty pop culture references, Lin Aojie's work is known for exposing the artist's plight and grey areas within the art industry in a seemingly light-hearted manner. In recent years, Lin has broadened his interests to include social reality and artificial intelligence. Drawing attention to the economic realm for this exhibition, he attempts to examine the inextricable, ambiguous relationship between artistic production and commercial development, as well as the intertwined yet evolving human desires in the information age through his usual self-deprecating interventions.

As a conceptually oriented artist, Lin Aojie is keen to set all kinds of ingenious traps in the exhibition - the title of which is not translatable from Chinese to English, for example - telling the 'truth' beneath the glamorous capital market in a sincere one, when consumerism and commercial operations have become an unavoidable global context, he takes advantage of the 'industrialisation of art' as a future trend to consider the possibilities of creating more access to conetmporary art for the general public.

Press release courtesy ShanghART.