-May 6 to June 28, 2026
-Reconstructed Landscape, an exhibition of Chinese Photography during urbanization;
Wang Peiquan, Sun Liangong, Zou Yongjun, Wang Xueya, Guo Mei, Shu Qiaomin, Lu Huandong
Curated by Jiang Rong
Reception, Saturday May 16, 7 PM to 9 PM
China’s ongoing process of urbanization has profoundly reshaped both urban and rural territories, transforming not only the physical landscape but also the ways in which people inhabit, perceive, and relate to their surroundings. These sweeping changes—often rapid, uneven, and irreversible—have left visible traces across cities, villages, and transitional zones, altering the environmental and social fabric of everyday life. As situated and sensitive observers of their time, photographers play a vital role in witnessing and recording these transformations. Through the camera, they do more than document change: they respond to it, interrogate it, and reimagine it. Photography becomes a means through which landscapes are not simply represented, but reconstructed—filtered through personal experience, conceptual intervention, and critical reflection. Reconstructed Landscape brings together the work of seven Chinese photographers whose practices engage, in distinct ways, with the landscapes shaped by China’s urbanization over recent decades. In some cases, the landscapes are reconfigured through deliberate artistic strategies; in others, they emerge as fragmented, altered, or unsettled spaces shaped by economic development, spatial displacement, and environmental degradation. Whether through staging, recontextualization, or attentive observation, each artist offers a re-reading of places in transition. Collectively, the photographs presented in this exhibition offer viewers a multifaceted perspective on China’s urbanization—not as a singular narrative of progress, but as a complex and layered process experienced through diverse terrains and lived realities. At the same time, the exhibition highlights how contemporary Chinese photographers negotiate their role within this shifting landscape, using photography both as a record of change and as a critical tool for reimagining the relationship between people and the environments they inhabit.
-August 05 to August 26, 2026
The Quiet Axis of Earth, Pi Lin Liu
Reception, Thursday August 6, 6 PM to 8 PM
What does it mean to witness time—not as a sequence of events, but as a condition that quietly reshapes the world? This series moves across polar landscapes, where boundaries between ice, water, land, and life appear both fragile and unstable. These environments are often perceived as distant or extreme, yet they reveal processes that are neither sudden nor dramatic, but continuous and inevitable. Rather than documenting change as an event, the work reflects on how forms dissolve, how structures lose coherence, and how presence gradually shifts toward absence. Human traces, animal life, and geological formations are not treated as separate subjects, but as elements within the same field of transformation. Seen through this quiet axis, time does not unfold in a linear progression. It accumulates through subtle erosion, through the slow reconfiguration of surfaces, and through the persistent uncertainty of what remains.
To the Shadows, A Visual Documentary Essay about Lakota Rides, Simon Vansteenwinckel
Reception August 6, 6 PM to 8 PM
" Every year in December, in North and South Dakota, members of the Lakota (Sioux) tribes gather to ride 450 km on horseback for 15 days, in temperatures that can drop to -20°C. They follow in the footsteps of Chief Big Foot's tribe, whose 300 members, mainly women and children, were massacred at Wounded Knee on December 29, 1890."
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