Fotografiska Museum Shanghai

PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion 1990-2023 will shed light on Viviane Sassen's creative process by focusing on two main themes: the importance of intimacy in her work and an incessant search for new photographic forms, reflecting her complex relationship with the image, oscillating between contemplation and exuberance, interior and exterior, highlighting the ambiguity inherent in the representation of reality.

Spanning photography, video, text, spatial installations, and stage plays, Liu Shiyuan's artistic practice reveals a profound exploration and interrogation of the intricate interplay between images and narratives. The exhibition features photography series and video works, encapsulating the artist’s creative journey over the past decade.

Among magnificent images of Marco Brambilla, the collective storytelling consciousness under specific popular cultural context is being reappropriated. Characters and scenes sampled from Hollywood cinema which represent for collective storytelling consciousness are given new implications, satirizing the overproduction under excessive consumption and images of oversaturation that overload senses. The fusion of cutting-edge technology and artistic creativity, highlighted through the integration of 3D elements and visual effects, have been pivotal in bringing Marco Brambilla's grand artistic vision to life. Using innovative techniques to re-imagine popular culture imagery, Brambilla challenges our perceptions and invites us to contemplate the intersections of the past, present, and future. Through his digital realms and immersive narratives, he transports us into a realm where reality and fiction blur.

In Sirens, Cooper & Gorfer create a fictitious tribe of women in different states of transformation. Birthed from a library of female bodies and rituals, the artists reconstruct a mythological dynasty inspired by the transformative powers of immortal goddesses, their use of power, magic, and vengeance.