Chen Wei & Cheng Ran dual exhibition in Shanghai

Author : Lucille Enel
Published on : April 27, 2015 | Last modified on : September 15th, 2015 at 7:48 am

Chen Wei — In the Waves

Chen Wei, Entrance 150 x 187,5 cm transparency in Lightbox 2013

Chen Wei In The Waves #1 transparency in Lightbox 150 x 187.5 cm 2013

Cheng Ran — Music is On Band is Gone

Day and Night, The Stardust, 2015 Mixed Media Installation

The Eclipse 2011, Single Channel, Video with sound, 1mn47 sec

Everything Has Its Time 2011, Single Channel Video with sound 6mn 52 sec

A fragmented sound clip on a mobile phone contains a recording of a piece of music played by a busker on the metro in Paris. “All of a sudden the music echoed through the carriage and seemed to tear through the air and the people on board, the music shone into everyone’s hearts with no way out.
Chewing Gum Paper, 2011 Single Channel video/ Color/ HDVD/ sound, 5 mn

Some silver paper balls scatter on a drum surface. They are jumping and moving with the fragmented “I Have a Dream”, the lecture record of Martin Luther King.

“The Passion of destruction is also a creative passion” Mikhail Bakunin’s quote