ShanghART Gallery
Booth A10
Art Beijing- Photo Beijing
Hall 5, National Agricultural Exhibition Center
September 6-9, 2008

The latest series of artworks by Wang Youshen continue the particular concept and technique of ‘Washing’. After ‘washing’, the photographs are recomposed and given a new structure and definition. Therefore, the content of the photographs are explained in new details and new perspectives. The ‘Washing’ itself can be comprehended as the symptom of abreacting emotions and fading memories, or a kind of suspicion or even denial on the reflection of the reality. Additionally, the readability of the photography is endued with deeper and broader meanings. 

Wang Youshen was born in Beijing in 1964. He graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and now lives and works in Beijing. Exhibitions include 85 New Wave – The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA, Beijing (2008); the 27th Bienal de Sao Paulo (Brazil 2006); Zooming into Focus, National Art Museum of China (Beijing 2005); Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China (U.S., U.K., and Germany, 2004 – 2005); 5^th Shanghai Biennale: Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum (2004); Washing – New Works by Wang Youshen, ShanghART Gallery (Shanghai 2004) and 45^th Venice Biennale (1993).

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