Yun-Fei Ji (b. 1963, Beijing) addresses historical memory and contemporary developments using the medium of Chinese ink painting. His painterly practice is rooted in travel and observation, and his interests frequently encompass the effects grand infrastructural projects and natural disasters have on normal people. This exhibition collects a number of his major works, including several scroll paintings more than ten meters long, which have never before been seen together. Realized during the past decade, and including pieces made especially for this exhibition, Ji’s works mainly deal with human displacement, often adding a mythological dimension to recent happenings. Trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Yun-Fei Ji emigrated to the United States in the late 1980s and made his artistic name working in Brooklyn and showing in a thoroughly international context. His painterly lens switches freely between his two homelands, with some works addressing American events such as Hurricane Katrina while others look at the Three Gorges Dam and the North-South Aqueduct. This is his first solo exhibition in Beijing.

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