Bertrand Gadenne, MOXI (Bernard Moïse), Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Eric Aupol, Jean-François Gavoty, Niek van de Steeg, GU Shicheng, LIU Jiayu, UFO media lab, YING Xinxun, ZHOU Linwei, ZENG Xi will be exhibiting at the Xie Zilong Museum of Photography in Changsha, China, in July 2021.

The River, perhaps the Rhine. The title of the exhibition was ‘Twelve Shades of Light’. The exhibition was curated by SONG Zhenxi.

   My work consisted of dismantling and recombining five boards into a sinuous strip, and such a figurative and abstract form reminds the public of the image of a river. The integrated blue boards are suspended 15 centimetres from the wall by cast bronze nails with large heads.
Above the charcoal drawings on the wall, a blue wooden river flows by, possibly the Rhine near Schaffhausen. Here is the catalogue text that accompanies this work:
The River

   The river carves the stone of the mountain. The river furrows the earth. The waterfall stirs the water and creates an atmosphere of mist, steam and white clouds, almost blinding in the reflection of the light. Here, the inspiration is the Rhine, one of Western Europe's great rivers, which creates a flat country in its delta, the Netherlands, by depositing raw materials. Elsewhere, the Nile, the clay and fertility of the earth and the age-old culture of Egypt. And so flow the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze, the Ganges and the Rhône...
   It is the mountains that deposit the basic raw materials, such as sand and clay, and it is the landscapes through which they flow that add, through cultural and biological elements, naturally and artificially, the ingredients necessary for the soup of life, creating cultures. It's as if the river were a total organism, a natural and cultural body, which through the essence of its slow action on a human scale could tell the story of civilisation and the transformation of the land. It is a flow of matter and energy that enlightens and illuminates human relationships and the occupation of the land. Every stream, every river and every watercourse carries within it this capacity to highlight and build up the specific and multiple histories of civilisation.
   Everywhere trees grow along the banks and when they fall into the water, the current carries them away.
   But the water, the sap, also flows through the trees, creating their thickness and size over the years. First and foremost, it is light that brings plants to life through photosynthesis. The leaves use light to transform CO2 into sugar and cellulose. And it is light that causes the sap to be transported and the essence to grow.
   The properties of the tree's wood are a work of art, just like the river. A work of art, in other words, a flow in movement that both irrigates and is nourished by all the territories it travels through, which sculpt and metamorphose it, a work in progress to which space and time give its singularity as well as a universal dimension, that of a narrative open to different entries and interactions. An unfolding that measures the different scales of time, the time of the seasons, the time of ecosystems, all conducive to the invention of an initiatory tale that sails to meet the ghosts of history and brings with it future events and utopian hypotheses.  You can download the catalogue here

The video of the opening and, at 33 seconds, a glimpse of my work