Things That Flow

In recent years' journey, artist Rongrong Bi has been collecting patterns from the different time and space. She re-interpreted these pattern fragments through her paintings, fabrics, field-specific installations, animations. This is also a way for her to respond to history and the real environment.

In this exhibition, she paid more attention on the river and the sea that play an important role in the rise of Shanghai. She collected the patterns of water and life from the traditional Chinese landscape painting, stone carvings, and the ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", as well as the real water images taken during the journey, and combined these patterns together. She created a huge water pattern on the ground, and intertexture with the water wave animation suspended in space and flowing in time.

Combine animation with field, Rongrong Bi invited the artist, Cheng Xv, to create a sound part for the work. Cheng Xv filled the whole space with the collected water sound for many years. The sound of melted snow water, the lake wave and the Jiangnan rain were all gathered here. The acoustic scene reproduced the change of water from the level of detail.