Nan Ke Gallery is pleased to present Mengfan Bai & Muhan Wu: Thus Have We Seen, a two-person exhibition that places one of the premier emerging painters in dialogue with one of the most critically acclaimed emerging installation artists of our time, featuring a new body of painting by Bai, presented in visual and spatial dialogue with two sets of new installation works by Wu. The unique associations and contrasts between the two artists’ works - emotionally charged urban fragments captured by Bai on her canvases and a series of Wu’s evocative installations inspired by various urban elements, created from found and collected materials are explored with new conceptual resonance.
Mengfan Bai and Muhan Wu have different creative approaches and styles, yet their methods and points of focus overlap quite a bit because of their attention to urban details. Their works construct unique urban spatial scenes from different perspectives, revealing some of the public and personal spatial relationships and power structures in daily life. Their creations also share a similar sentiment, which relates to the concepts of beauty, rootlessness, loss and hope. The exhibition will challenge the geographical and architectural structure of the venue by juxtaposing the two artists' works in different media, allowing the viewer to reassemble and experience the urban environment through the urban fragments they collect and present.
