A new show at Shanghai Gallery of Art features three leading contemporary Chinese artists, Qiu Zhijie, Wang Jianwei, and Yang Fudong, who have created new works specifically for this occasion. The four-dimensional show Space anew is the latest of SGA's shows to present and promote experimental work by emerging and established Chinese artists.

SPACE anew explores the potential of collaborative art practices among artists. After long and intense discussions, these artists have abandoned traditional exhibition practice. Running contrary to the conventions of gathering artworks made from different contexts under one roof to form a coherent narrative, these artists question the audiences’ temporal and spatial experiences in hope of redefining the identity of the gallery as an living laboratory.

Qiu Zhijie is recognized as one of the leading emerging artists from China. He is interested in subverting existing social and power dictions with different media and materials. For Space anew, Qiu will be showing documentaries from India, Iran, Turkey, Japan, and Thailand that probe our interpretations of calendar from different cultures.

Wang Jianwei is widely recognized for his complex conceptual work, as the strategies and thinking processes behind the work occupy equal importance. Wang investigates the power relations between individuals and society and how we negotiate meaning in the private and public realms. Wang will create a mobile structure in which audiences are invited to observe mundane events in a private setting.

As a well-known video artist, Yang Fudong always commits himself to "exploring the reality of social life."  In film, video or photograph, he has never blenched from the aspects of ego and emotion in his work. What his eyes and cameras are trying to capture is, "a real world being created, being endowed with subjective hint by human and waiting for being reexplored," says the artist. Yang will create a new work for the atrium at SAG, one that questions our reliance on time in cinema.

Following the acclaimed video and installation exhibition Dialogues… in May, Space anew Shanghai Gallery of Art continues to present and promote experimental Chinese contemporary art.

The show runs through July 11, 2004. Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three On the Bund is located at  No.3 The Bund 3/F, 3 Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road, Shanghai 200002, China. Tel: 8621 6321 5757 8621 6323 3355* or www.threeonthebund.com