Yang Shaobin is an artist famous for his unique abstract realist paintings. This September, he will transform UCCA’s Middle Room into a monochromatic sea of true-blue landscapes and portraits inspired by global climate change. Centered around the themes of "invisible" violence and confrontation, these paintings saturate the room with uncertainty. The artist plans to cover two opposing walls with 38 portraits of people (both well-known and anonymous) and two adjacent walls with deep blue landscapes of infinity.

Yang Shaobin's Blue Room is a series of paintings whose dimensions have been meticulously customized to fit the UCCA space. Viewers will find themselves surrounded by oversized portraits, each nearly two meters high. On one side, we see an array of political leaders involved in the recent global climate talks; on the other, portraits of refugees living on the margins of survival or struggling with the effects of climate change. Two landscape paintings, one of a black hole and another of the eye of a storm, slowly draw the viewer into acknowledging the immeasurable and violent uncertainty of this Blue Room.