PHOTOFAIRS

Get to know: One of China's most important contemporary artists working with photography, film and installation, Yang Fudong 📷

'What if we expressed our true and fake emotions at the same time, in order to reach what we ultimately desire? Mixing both yin and yang is like painting truth and lies. I wondered how to achieve such imagery and how to show this thin line between the real and unreal through film techniques: set design, characters, costumes, and music. Is seeing really believing?' - Yang Fudong

Born in Beijing and living in Shanghai, Yang’s visual language has always been enveloped in a dream-like mystery. His characters, often silent and disembodied, usually move according to choreographed gestures and transport the viewer into an aesthetically perfect environment. His work deliberately suspends and confuses time.

The works of Yang Fudong mark a breakthrough in contemporary visual production in China. His first film, 'An Estranged Paradise', which premiered at Documenta XI in Kassel in 2002, showcased a new narrative and visual sensibility steeped in a contemporary aesthetic informed by multiple registers of heritage; his monumental cycle, 'Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest', was completed over the ensuing five years, poetically rendering the anomie of his generation as it came of age in the early years of the new millennium.

🏛 If in Beijing anytime this year and till 22 February 2026, don't miss Yang Fudong's most comprehensive institutional exhibition to date at UCCA Beijing, co-curated by UCCA Director Philip Tinari and UCCA Curator Chelsea Qianxi Liu.

Image: Yang Fudong, The Summer Palace, c.1976. Courtesy the artist
Quote from interview with BOMB Magazine, 2012

: Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades at M+, Hong Kong.

For the first time ever, photographic works of Yasumasa Morimura (Japanese, born 1951) and Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) will be paired in an exhibition. Both artists are renowned for their visual and conceptual strategies of masquerade, transforming their appearances to portray multiple identities that offer incisive commentary on contemporary culture and history.

This is an unmissable show for anyone interested in how contemporary women artists use photography to explore identity, gender and the gaze.

The show is on view till 5 May 2025 in Hong Kong.

Image Credits:

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #92, 1981 (Cropped), Chromogenic colour print. Copyright Cindy Sherman. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Yasumasa Morimura, One Hundred M's Self portraits #26, Photographer in 1993-2000, Gelatin silver print. M+, Hong Kong. Copyright Yasumasa Morimura. Courtesy of the artists and Luhring Augustine, New York, and Yoshiko Isshiki Office, Tokyo.

This is not a painting.

French artist Jean-François Rauzier is a pioneer of the digital photography and creator of the technique known as “hyperphotography".

At the end of the last century, when the advent of Photoshop fueled the rapid rise of digital photography, Rauizer found a way to realize his artistic vision: He used software technology to stitch together landscapes from different regions and angles to create hyper-panoramas with rich details.

An exhibition of his series “Givernisme,” is now on view at the Sea World Culture and Arts Center in Shekou, Nanshan District, China until 23 February. The show celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Impressionism, and Rauzier works made at Monet’s former residence in Giverny, France.

Image Credit: Jean-François Rauzier, Giverny Abstract 8, 2022, C-Print mounted on aluminium, 37 x 47 in. Courtesy of the artist and Modern Fine Art.