UCCA Beijing

Wang Mai: Dire Straits

2012.7.22 - 2012.8.30

wood, resin, stainless steel dimensions variable

2012

Courtesy of the artist

About

Location:  Nave

UCCA is pleased to announce the opening of Wang Mai: Dire Straits, opening on July 22 (press conference, July 21, 16:00). For this exhibition, Wang has created an immersive environment that completely fills the UCCA’s soaring Nave, transforming it into a spectacular, absurdist landscape that is part waterway and part forest, an analysis of both a disappearing past and an uncertain future. The metaphor of the strait — a narrow divide that must be controlled and that often creates tension — allows Wang Mai to posit a parallel between the physical space in which the exhibition takes place and the wider geopolitical background against which it unfolds.

For more information, please read the “Wang Mai: Dire Straits” press release.

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Wang Mai

Dire Straits (detail)

Wood, resin, stainless steel dimensions variable
2012
Courtesy of the artist.

Wang Mai

Dire Straits (detail)

Wood, resin, stainless steel dimensions variable
2012
Courtesy of the artist.

Wang Mai

Dire Straits (detail)

Wood, resin, stainless steel dimensions variable
2012
Courtesy of the artist.

Wang Mai

Dire Straits (detail)

Wood, resin, stainless steel dimensions variable
2012
Courtesy of the artist.

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