Artists:Cao Shu, Yao Qingmei, Yin Yunya
Opening:2025/05/20 4pm Tue.
Duration:2025/05/20 - 06/29 11:00 – 18:00 Mon. Closed
Location:261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
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 virtualization 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 realized? 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.