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Overview

A Chinese artist presents contemporary visions of reciprocity between humanity, Nature and the heavenly.

This exhibition showcases videos, photographs and assemblages by the Chinese contemporary artist Tan Lijie representing imagined coexistences between lived realities, enchanted realms, reveries and dreamscapes.

The multi-dimensionality of Tan’s work gives rise to subtly transporting atmospheres and myriad aesthetic affects which suspend fixed perceptions of the real as well as any orderly sense of time and space.

Tan’s work is informed by personal concerns about the controlling expectations and devastating environmental impact of present-day, materially obsessed, societies. It is also marked by the residual traces of traditional Chinese Confucian-literati culture and its aspirations toward a harmonious – mutually sustaining – aestheticized reciprocity between humanity, Nature and the heavenly.

Enchanted Realities -Tan Lijie, Selected Works 2013-2022Ìýis curated with reference to Johnson.ÌýTzong-zung Chang’s conception of the Yellow Box; an intervention with internationally dominant modes of gallery display intended as conducive to the showing of works characterized by the harmonizing reciprocity of traditional Chinese Confucian-literati aesthetics.

Tan continues to live and work in her home city of Shenzhen at the border between mainland China and Hong Kong – an interstitial space resonant with the indeterminate aesthetics of the artist’s work.