Shi Wanwan, An Istanbul Painter

Shi Wanwan attempts to insert his own artistic practice into the arbitrary flow of social relations. "An Istanbul Painter" is a foreign individual of Shi Wanwan’s own imagining, whom he eventually locates through a long process exhausting all possible channels. He undertakes this process not to test his imagination, but to realize a probability.

This artwork was featured in the UCCA exhibition "ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, ” 2013