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Inna Art Space will present the group exhibition “ Life’s Procession” at Booth B105, West Bund Art & Design Fair 2023. The exhibition will feature a range of paintings, photography, videos, and installations by artists Bignia Wehrli, Candida Höfer, Chen Dongfan, Liao Wenfeng, Liu Beining, Mie Yim, and Walter Robinson.

Bignia Wehrli often deals with the poetic relationships between hyperspaces and imaginary subjects by inventing new techniques and processes. In the video piece "Grass Walking", she attaches two blades of grass to the tips of her shoes and walks around the city, leaving an imaginative trace of the plants in the urban space.

Candida Höfer, one of the most significant contemporary photographers, is known for what is described as "the psychology of sociable architecture." She captures public spaces in a calm, objective manner, deliberately erasing human traces from her images. The absence of people, paradoxically, provokes the viewer's imagination to explore the rich cultural and historical narratives embedded within the architecture.

Chen Dongfan emphasizes the infusion of strength and emotional rhythm in his paintings, which also maintain a cool and humorous multiplicity of perspectives. His works touch on themes of power and tenderness, consumption and preservation, as well as time and romance. The friction, stirring and even beating between brush and canvas are in fact for one purpose - to breathe life into the paintings.

Inna Art Space will present the group exhibition “ Life’s Procession” at Booth B105, West Bund Art & Design Fair 2023. The exhibition will feature a range of paintings, photography, videos, and installations by artists Bignia Wehrli, Candida Höfer, Chen Dongfan, Liao Wenfeng, Liu Beining, Mie Yim, and Walter Robinson.

Bignia Wehrli often deals with the poetic relationships between hyperspaces and imaginary subjects by inventing new techniques and processes. In the video piece "Grass Walking", she attaches two blades of grass to the tips of her shoes and walks around the city, leaving an imaginative trace of the plants in the urban space.

Candida Höfer, one of the most significant contemporary photographers, is known for what is described as "the psychology of sociable architecture." She captures public spaces in a calm, objective manner, deliberately erasing human traces from her images. The absence of people, paradoxically, provokes the viewer's imagination to explore the rich cultural and historical narratives embedded within the architecture.

Chen Dongfan emphasizes the infusion of strength and emotional rhythm in his paintings, which also maintain a cool and humorous multiplicity of perspectives. His works touch on themes of power and tenderness, consumption and preservation, as well as time and romance. The friction, stirring and even beating between brush and canvas are in fact for one purpose - to breathe life into the paintings.

Liao Wenfeng frequently employs visual illusions and puns in his art to reveal numerous paradoxes between image and perception. The paintings on display originate from his observations of orchids, which Liao portrays as "hidden portraits." In this series, he intends to offer the viewer a gaze—a gaze emerging from the void.

Liu Beining's art practice, starting with drawing and writing, expands into a multifaceted array of multimedia creations and curatorial projects. Objects such as water, stone, dust, stars, skeletons, hands, and other organs recur in his work. He constantly explores the landscape, the transmission of other knowledge/political images, and historical/time concepts, and infuses them with subtle textures in his works.

Mie Yim's paintings are a paradox of abstraction and figuration. She is captivated by the nuanced transformations in nature, a realm where growth, replication, mutation, chaos, and terror are inextricably linked to beauty and wonder. About painting, she states, "I hope that in the end, there is something undeniably real, as though it had always existed.”

Walter Robinson, a painter and art critic, was also the founding editor of the online magazine Artnet from 1996 to 2012. He approaches his paintings with a keen observational eye, starting with the ubiquitous desires in American social life. He satirically replicates specific imagery found in magazines, movies, posters, commercial advertisements, flyers, and product catalogs of American consumer culture, thus responding to the core nature of the capitalist era.