「EXHIBITION PHOTOS」
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Featuring Artists:
ORLAN (PARIS) • IMMA (TOKYO) •BIANCA TSE (HONG KONG)•RINIIFISH (HANGZHOU)
Curated by: Warren Wee
Curated by: Warren Wee
「ABOUT」
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai is Asia Pacific's leading art fair dedicated to photography and digital art, established in 2014 to showcase contemporary and modern photo-based works. The Fair features international galleries, installation art, and AI-driven works, making it a key venue for collectors, embracing conceptual and experimental practices alongside the work of modern masters and contemporary talents. It acts as a site for discovery, presenting galleries and artists working at the forefront of the medium. Complemented by the vibrant public, VIP, and satellite events programs, the Fair brings together museums and galleries from Shanghai and across China in a celebration of the best in photography from the Asia Pacific and around the world. Hosted by Meta Media, the 11th edition of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai is held at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Digital Art Week Asia would be presenting The Human Condition at Booth W07 with participation in a panel discussion on the opening day.
「CURATORIAL STATEMENT」
The Human Condition is presented by independent arts platform Digital Art Week Asia (DAWA) and held in the downtown Shanghai Exhibition Centre, a landmark 20th-century Russian neoclassical structure inspired by Moscow's All-Union Agricultural Exhibition Hall and St. Petersburg's Admiralty building, featuring a prominent central tower and neoclassical style. This new media arts exhibition gathers four trailblazing female artists that treat the human environment not as a backdrop but as an active participant. In their own personal practices, their works cultivate new visual forms of attention and responsibility. Their works do not only document loss, but transforms environmental demolition into an immersive visual experience. Riniifish's work examines the microscopic world, a world where organisms persist, mutate, and interact, and where small changes accumulate until they become ecological shifts. Virtual human imma transforms familiar pollutants into a visible, wearable document of loss - the up-cycled dress worn is refashioned rather than erased and now contours the human silhouette, asking the viewer to hold contradiction in the same breath. Transforming extinction into coexistence is ORLAN's series of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated work, where she is reincarnated into robots made from recycled materials placed in dialogue with endangered animals set within their natural environment. Pong Lai is an AI work by Bianca Tse which speaks of an ecosystem of bodies, languages, trades and informal ecologies - densely built, improvisational and resilient in the face of neglect. Inspired by the defunct Kowloon Walled City, a demolition seen as a rupture of interdependence in this never ending reorganisation of the human conditions.
「FEATURED ARTISTS」
ORLAN (b.1947) is a renowned French mixed media artist who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics (she has created a multilingual robot in her image that speaks with her voice), holograms, the metaverse, as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology... ORLAN created the Art-Accès Revue on minitel and founded and organised the International Performance and Video Symposium in Lyon, France. ORLAN constantly and radically changes the givens, upsetting conventions and ready-made thinking. She opposes natural, social and political determinism, all forms of domination, male supremacy, religion, cultural segregation, racism... Always mixed with humor, sometimes parody or even grotesquery, her work questions social phenomena and challenges pre-established codes.
Bianca Tse (b.1982) an artist from Hong Kong, combines her expertise in visual communication with a deep passion for documentary work. Growing up in a Temporary Housing Area, she developed a strong connection to the themes of chaotic urban life and poverty. Her fascination with the history of Kowloon Walled City and her hometown fuels her artistic vision. Bianca's style is rooted in storytelling, weaving together Hong Kong's collective memories with the limitless possibilities of AI as a creative medium. By blending authentic history with imagination, she creates a captivating juxtaposition between the familiar and the extraordinary, breathing life into forgotten narratives and presenting them in a unique light.
Wei Wei (b.1993) aka Riniifish is a digital artist from Hangzhou, China. She began creating digital art early on and has gradually gained attention in a wider international context. Her series "Planet M7" depicts a psychedelic microscopic world where bizarre creatures—insects and alien-like beings—live in seemingly illogical yet harmonious environments, presented in vibrant fluorescent colors. Through her work, the artist explores how the microscopic world resonates with humanity's sense of alienation (even "otherness") towards the real world—cells, fungi, and viruses—despite their ubiquity. The fluorescent hues are also interpreted as a metaphor, symbolizing a man-made, human-driven confrontation against the harsh realities of nature. Beyond aesthetic significance, these creatures also represent various emotional states—especially negative emotions like mania and depression—giving them form and helping both the artist and the viewer find peace and solace. In short, this work encourages people to transcend appearances, pay attention to easily overlooked details, and reflect on their inner world amidst the chaos of external distractions.
imma (2018) is Japan’s first virtual human, instantly recognisable for her signature pink bob. Since her debut in 2018, her singular presence—blurring the boundary between real and virtual—has captured global attention, generating coverage in more than 5,000 media outlets across 50 countries. She has amassed a total social media following of 3 million. As one of Asia’s leading virtual humans, imma was selected as one of Forbes Women’s “Women of the Year 2020.” She also appeared in the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and served as a host at the opening ceremony of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, further cementing her position as one of Asia’s most prominent virtual humans.
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai is Asia Pacific's leading art fair dedicated to photography and digital art, established in 2014 to showcase contemporary and modern photo-based works. The Fair features international galleries, installation art, and AI-driven works, making it a key venue for collectors, embracing conceptual and experimental practices alongside the work of modern masters and contemporary talents. It acts as a site for discovery, presenting galleries and artists working at the forefront of the medium. Complemented by the vibrant public, VIP, and satellite events programs, the Fair brings together museums and galleries from Shanghai and across China in a celebration of the best in photography from the Asia Pacific and around the world. Hosted by Meta Media, the 11th edition of PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai is held at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Digital Art Week Asia would be presenting The Human Condition at Booth W07 with participation in a panel discussion on the opening day.
「CURATORIAL STATEMENT」
The Human Condition is presented by independent arts platform Digital Art Week Asia (DAWA) and held in the downtown Shanghai Exhibition Centre, a landmark 20th-century Russian neoclassical structure inspired by Moscow's All-Union Agricultural Exhibition Hall and St. Petersburg's Admiralty building, featuring a prominent central tower and neoclassical style. This new media arts exhibition gathers four trailblazing female artists that treat the human environment not as a backdrop but as an active participant. In their own personal practices, their works cultivate new visual forms of attention and responsibility. Their works do not only document loss, but transforms environmental demolition into an immersive visual experience. Riniifish's work examines the microscopic world, a world where organisms persist, mutate, and interact, and where small changes accumulate until they become ecological shifts. Virtual human imma transforms familiar pollutants into a visible, wearable document of loss - the up-cycled dress worn is refashioned rather than erased and now contours the human silhouette, asking the viewer to hold contradiction in the same breath. Transforming extinction into coexistence is ORLAN's series of Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated work, where she is reincarnated into robots made from recycled materials placed in dialogue with endangered animals set within their natural environment. Pong Lai is an AI work by Bianca Tse which speaks of an ecosystem of bodies, languages, trades and informal ecologies - densely built, improvisational and resilient in the face of neglect. Inspired by the defunct Kowloon Walled City, a demolition seen as a rupture of interdependence in this never ending reorganisation of the human conditions.
「FEATURED ARTISTS」
ORLAN (b.1947) is a renowned French mixed media artist who uses sculpture, photography, performance, video, 3D, video games, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics (she has created a multilingual robot in her image that speaks with her voice), holograms, the metaverse, as well as scientific and medical techniques such as surgery and biotechnology... ORLAN created the Art-Accès Revue on minitel and founded and organised the International Performance and Video Symposium in Lyon, France. ORLAN constantly and radically changes the givens, upsetting conventions and ready-made thinking. She opposes natural, social and political determinism, all forms of domination, male supremacy, religion, cultural segregation, racism... Always mixed with humor, sometimes parody or even grotesquery, her work questions social phenomena and challenges pre-established codes.
Bianca Tse (b.1982) an artist from Hong Kong, combines her expertise in visual communication with a deep passion for documentary work. Growing up in a Temporary Housing Area, she developed a strong connection to the themes of chaotic urban life and poverty. Her fascination with the history of Kowloon Walled City and her hometown fuels her artistic vision. Bianca's style is rooted in storytelling, weaving together Hong Kong's collective memories with the limitless possibilities of AI as a creative medium. By blending authentic history with imagination, she creates a captivating juxtaposition between the familiar and the extraordinary, breathing life into forgotten narratives and presenting them in a unique light.
Wei Wei (b.1993) aka Riniifish is a digital artist from Hangzhou, China. She began creating digital art early on and has gradually gained attention in a wider international context. Her series "Planet M7" depicts a psychedelic microscopic world where bizarre creatures—insects and alien-like beings—live in seemingly illogical yet harmonious environments, presented in vibrant fluorescent colors. Through her work, the artist explores how the microscopic world resonates with humanity's sense of alienation (even "otherness") towards the real world—cells, fungi, and viruses—despite their ubiquity. The fluorescent hues are also interpreted as a metaphor, symbolizing a man-made, human-driven confrontation against the harsh realities of nature. Beyond aesthetic significance, these creatures also represent various emotional states—especially negative emotions like mania and depression—giving them form and helping both the artist and the viewer find peace and solace. In short, this work encourages people to transcend appearances, pay attention to easily overlooked details, and reflect on their inner world amidst the chaos of external distractions.
imma (2018) is Japan’s first virtual human, instantly recognisable for her signature pink bob. Since her debut in 2018, her singular presence—blurring the boundary between real and virtual—has captured global attention, generating coverage in more than 5,000 media outlets across 50 countries. She has amassed a total social media following of 3 million. As one of Asia’s leading virtual humans, imma was selected as one of Forbes Women’s “Women of the Year 2020.” She also appeared in the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and served as a host at the opening ceremony of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, further cementing her position as one of Asia’s most prominent virtual humans.
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