Artworks

Social View: Iconography from City

It is one of exhibition sections of “Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2017”. Most participating artists are also actively engaged in various important exhibition activities at home and abroad. With abundant visual experience and cultural tours, they try to discuss the relation between contemporary photography and realistic cities through keen camera lens in an avant-garde artistic pose.
The artworks which manifest unique visual models in the social process in the contemporary China as example of artists’ position are to construct observational dimensions and discuss social spectacles during urbanization under iconographic perspective. The artists and their works have transcended the journalism and documentary nature of image with unique artistry. Unveiling images, they expect viewers can focus on various relations between time, people, space and scene, and also exploit the neglected connotation and essence in cultural environment. Meanwhile, they remind viewers to take initiative to inspect different orientations of cities and re-think where urban civilization heads forward.

Participants

Guoxing Ao, Jianyong Dai, Mengbo Feng, Chongyue He, Jiangbo Jin, Jim Speers, Xiaofei Li, Zhenyu Li, Liang Ma, Weihua Ni, Nancy Royal, Yan Qu, Shaomin Shen, Wenhuan Shao, Chuan Wang, Qingsong Wang, Tan Xu, Yongliang Yang, Hongli Zhao, Li 南茜·罗亚尔

Venue

8F