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Nostalgic Mayfly / 恋旧蜉蝣, our debut Shanghai group exhibition opens today till Nov. 11th at @rockbund__shanghai. Experience over 50 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, and installations by 13 artists across New York City and Shanghai. Nostalgic Mayfly / 恋旧蜉蝣, StillShow by Stilllife ⌛: 11.2 - 11.11, 11:00 - 19:00 📍: 1st Floor, ZA · Andrews & George Building, No.108, East Beijing Road, @rockbund__shanghai, Shanghai / 洛克·外滩源 上海市黄浦区北京东路118号 众安·美丰大楼1楼 Stay tuned for info on our Nov. 6th panel talk, Nov. 8th @rockbundartmuseum After Party co-hosted with @TRLab, and Nov. 9th performance. Alice Gong Xiaowen @alice_gong_xiaowen Xingzi Gu @__sing.zi Sihan Guo @sguo_sihan Brittni Ann Harvey @brittniannharvey Harry Gould Harvey IV @harrygouldharveyiv Sizhu Li @sizhuli Gozié Ojini @blestwun Ren Light Pan @sheseemsnice Tianyi Sun @tianyisun_ Dexter Vandersall @dexvandersall Wang Ye @satelitever Yesiyu Zhao @yesiyuzhao Xinyu Zhou @zhouxinyu09 Visuals: Simon Zurui Chen @zurui18 Theingi Thann @theingitt Rebecca Yinan Chen @rebecca_ynchen Curatorial Foreword: Sihan Guo @sguo_sihan Artistic Direction: Jeffrey Ziyu Liu @jeffr2000, Katerina Chenyu Wang @kat1123kat, Azure Qi Zhou @im.azure (alphabetical by last name) media support: Siliang Shen @siliang.s Shuyang Gao @shushugaogao Install images by: Alessandro Wang Venue support: ROCKBUND @rockbund__shanghai #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #GroupShow #Shanghai #ROCKBUND #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists

StillShow by Stilllife debuts during Shanghai art week with “Nostalgic Mayfly / 恋旧蜉蝣,” a 10 day group show presenting 50 artworks from 13 emerging artists across New York City and Shanghai. Press & VIP Preview: Friday, 11.1, 3PM - 7PM (Invite Only) ⏳: 11.2 - 11.11, 11AM - 7PM 📍: 1st Floor, ZA · Andrews & George Building, No.108, East Beijing Road, ROCKBUND, Shanghai / 洛克·外滩源 上海市黄浦区北京东路118号 众安·美丰大楼1楼 Featuring paintings, sculptures, and site-specific installations, StillShow Shanghai flutters by like a Mayfly, navigating transient memory, identity, and cultural heritage in a post-globalized world. A series of public programs, including panel talks, @rockbundartmuseum’s Nov. 8th Gala Party co-hosted with @TRLab, and performances will take place throughout the show. Stay tuned for more information. Alice Gong Xiaowen @alice_gong_xiaowen Xingzi Gu @__sing.zi Sihan Guo @sguo_sihan Brittni Ann Harvey @brittniannharvey Harry Gould Harvey IV @harrygouldharveyiv Sizhu Li @sizhuli Gozié Ojini @blestwun Ren Light Pan @sheseemsnice Tianyi Sun @tianyisun_ Dexter Vandersall @dexvandersall Wang Ye @satelitever Yesiyu Zhao @yesiyuzhao Xinyu Zhou @zhouxinyu09 Poster design: @zurui18 @theingitt @rebecca_ynchen Curation and content: @sguo_sihan @jeffr2000 @im.azure @kat1123kat Special support: @shushugaogao @siliang.s Special thanks to our venue sponsor ROCKBUND @rockbund__shanghai #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #ArtShow #GroupShow #Shanghai #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists

Welcome to StillShow by Stilllife, open for the next week till this Sunday, May 12th. Experience the 20 artists‘ works in person before it’s too late. StillShow by Stilllife presents “Can Thought Go On Without A Body?” May 5 - May 12, 10AM - 7PM Daily 54 Crosby St, Soho NYC @lorenzoamosf @stephendeffet @r_domenech @alice_gong_xiaowen @__sing.zi @sguo_sihan @helloyasmine @sizhuli @xinyixinyiliu @naominakazato @studioshinohnam @sheseemsnice @em__rooney @abedelmajidshalabi @tianyisun_ @naokisutter @dexvandersall @ericveit @peachyiii @mengismeng Installation views of “Can Thought Go On Without A Body” at StillShow by Stilllife, New York City, 2024. May 4 - May 12, 2024. Artwork, left to right: (1) © Em Rooney, Rafael Domenech, Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Yasmine Anlan Huang, Alice Gong Xiaowen, Lorenzo Amos. (2) © Dexter Vandersall. (3) © Tianyi Sun, Ren Light Pan, Stephen Deffet. (4) © Sihan Guo. (5) © Lorenzo Amos. (6) © Meng Zhou (7) © Stephen Deffet. (8) © Ren Light Pan. (9) © Shinoh Nam, Naomi Nakazato, Eric Veit. (10) © Naoki Sutter-Shudo. Photo: Tianqi Liao, 2024. @tiann.qi StillShow would like to thank @peprealestatenyc for their venue support in 54 Crosby St. #Stilllife #StillShow #Exhibition #CanThoughtGoOnWithoutABody #ArtShow #EmergingArt #EmergingArtists #ArtCommunity #nycart #artworld #ContemporaryArt #Art #NewYorkArtWeek #ArtExhibition

In M?n Mad With Fear Reconciliation of the Source After Courbet (2021), @harrygouldharveyiv draws on two iconic works by Gustave Courbet: The Source (1852) and The Man Made Mad with Fear (1843). Harvey’s fascination with French realism and its exploration of the human condition is evident in the red and black abstract patterns, which evoke stained glass windows and create an optical, prism-like effect. Born and raised in Fall River, MA, Harvey’s work is deeply rooted in the ecological and industrial history of the South Coast region. Using materials sourced from fallen trees, ruined Gilded Age mansions, abandoned factories, and Gothic churches, Harvey crafts mystical, diagrammatic drawings set in reliquary-like hand-built frames. His large-scale sculptural installations reflect on the lost histories of marginalized artisans and the grueling labor underpinning American industry and luxury. DM or email us to learn more about Harry Gould Harvey’s practice. Harry Gould Harvey IV M?n Mad With Fear Reconciliation of the Source After Courbet 2021 Colored pencil, charcoal on archival mat board, MDF, walnut from the Newport Mansions 34 x 20 in. (86.4 x 50.8 cm) (HH2421005)

“In these painting-adjacent objects, appropriated images sourced from online subcultures gain an infectious and seductive plasticity through the transfer process, thanks to the layering of mute acetate, epoxy resin, and plexiglass and the artist’s framing of these reconfigured components.” “There is a cuteness to this body of works, though they tend to be documentation and condensation of the symbolic violence inherent to consuming digital interfaces.” - @dionysus.in.modernity on @tianyisun_’s work Tianyi Sun explores the re-creation of embodied experience and its inevitable failure. Through interweaving painting, sculpture, time-based media, poetry, and software, she composes responsive environments to excavate the affects of technology. Her work examines digital interfaces, communication systems, archival structures, and physical architecture as concurrent networks of power. Within these systems, she locates subjectivity, memory, and the body as processes in flux, oscillating between states of precariousness and preservation, public and private, reality and simulation. DM or email us to learn more about Tianyi Sun’s practice. Tianyi Sun, Softbox [Soap], 2022, acetate, epoxy, digital print transfers, heat treated laser cut acrylic, neodymium magnets, acrylic polymer, oil on laser cut Plexiglass. 14 x 17 in. (35.56 x 43.18 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Stilllife. #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #GroupShow #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists #NYCArt #Tianyisun

“During the long process of weaving fishing nets with my mother’s help, I became familiar with the silk threads, which eventually led me to start creating embroidery works.” - Wang Ye @satelitever This journey inspired “Catch the Light in a Net,” a Hunan-style embroidery piece resembling a fish net—a collaborative creation between Wang Ye and his mother. Wang Ye was born in Changsha (China) in 1991. He graduated from the Design Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 in Beijing. In 2017, Wang Ye graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Sculpture Department of Yale University School of Art. Ye works in multi-media projects that combine video, sculpture, handicraft, and installation. The artist learned traditional fishing net knitting from his hometown. Currently, he is studying the Hunan Embroidery technique. Ye draws inspiration from folk art as cultural heritage often reveals how aesthetic and value form and evolve. DM or email us to learn more about Wang Ye’s practice. Wang Ye, Catch the Light in a Net, 2018-2019, Hunan Embroidery, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist, Stilllife and @yveyanggallery. #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #GroupShow #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists #NYCArt

“They say: Much is lost in translation. Other things are gained. And yet others are, like Gong Xiaowen, caught in between—neither this nor that, here nor there, us nor them.”  –Robert Morris Levine Gong explores diasporic experiences through the preservation of collective memories underlain in mundane objects, fostering a sense of belonging amidst displaced contexts in the lens of culture and historical traditions. Her sculptures and installations, often combining ready-made, sound,  metal casting and ephemeral materials, intentionally defamiliarize and recalibrate behaviors associated with customs and rituals, reconstructing identity and authenticity as lineages in flux.  DM or email us to learn more about Alice Gong Xiaowen’s practice.
 Alice Gong Xiaowen flour, water 2020-2022 Pewter, soapstone 3 x 7 x 10 in. (7.62 x 17.78 x 25.4 cm) Unique  #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #GroupShow #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists #NYCArt

I try to render truths in drawings and carve frames from wood forged from these lands and these properties in Fall River. — Harry Gould Harvey @harrygouldharveyiv In Lobelia Lover Specialize Pollinator (2023), Harvey reimagines the angel from Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I (1514), dropping a yolk filled with red and blue lobelia—symbols of love, beauty, and healing. Carved vines along the frame echo Harvey’s signature use of natural forms and reclaimed materials, inspired by the history and ecology of his native Fall River, MA. DM or email us to learn more about Harry Gould Harvey’s practice. Harry Gould Harvey IV Lobelia Lover Specialize Pollinator, 2023 colored pencil, charcoal, Black Walnut from the Delano Sawmill, New Bedford, MA 10 x 12 1/2 x 2 ins. 25.4 x 31.8 x 5.1 cm

“I’m trying to capture innocence when it becomes not innocent anymore.” We’re honored that Xingzi Gu @__sing.zi joined both StillShow by Stilllife Shanghai and NYC this year. Tinged with a quiet melancholy, Xingzi’s work captures intimacy and relationality, weaving sentimentalism and storytelling through layered brushstrokes. Figures blur and dissolve into backgrounds, inviting open-ended interpretations and a profound engagement with memory and emotion. DM or email us to learn more about Xingzi Gu’s practice. Xingzi Gu, Untitled (Petal), 2024, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 17 x 20 in. (43.18 x 50.8 cm) #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #GroupShow #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists #NYCArt

“The artist’s viewpoint is not invalidated with us like it often is in the silo of a technological, bureaucratic realm.” — Brittni Ann Harvey We’re honored to have Brittni Ann Harvey @brittniannharvey join StillShow by Stilllife this year. Harvey’s practice delves into the intersections of craft and technology, drawing from Gothic and Proto-Renaissance imagery to create works that navigate themes of spirituality, technological advancement, and material histories. Her use of embroidery, fabric, and sculptural elements transforms traditional techniques into bold contemporary statements. DM or email us to learn more about Brittni Ann Harvey’s practice. Brittni Ann Harvey Time Horizon, 2022 Oil and thread on burlap, sumac tie-dyed Seacell fabric, Huayruro artist frame 23 x 14.5 x 1.5 in. (58 x 37 x 11 cm)

It’s been a week since we closed StillShow by Stilllife Shanghai and we’re excited to bring you back with artwork spotlights, starting with @alice_gong_xiaowen’s 2019 sculpture, “flour + water.”  We’re honored that Alice Gong Xiaowen joined both StillShow by Stilllife Shanghai and NYC this year. In Alice Gong Xiaowen’s practice, material translations of matter and haptic memories imagine the collapse and reconfiguration of object-hood. She is drawn to processes of indexing as meditations on anticipating loss as it allows action to have a hand in mitigating that which is continuously becoming distant, disintegrating, slipping, yet anew. Translation helps lay to witness, stills from an exhaustive effort to hold onto that which is constantly in a stage of atrophy—to make relics from fugitive personal and cultural memory remnants that are no longer exercised via a reconjuring of memory through sound, texture, and impression. DM or email us to learn more about Alice Gong Xiaowen’s practice.
 Alice Gong Xiaowen, flour + water, 2019, cast iron, wax, resin, stainless steel, 8 x 5 x 3 in. (20.32 x 12.7 x 7.62 cm), Edition 1/5 + 1 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Stilllife.  #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #GroupShow #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists #NYCArt

🚨Last day to see Nostalgic Mayfly / 恋旧蜉蝣, StillShow by Stilllife’s debut Shanghai group exhibition. We’re open today till 7PM at @rockbund__shanghai. Nostalgic Mayfly / 恋旧蜉蝣, StillShow by Stilllife ⌛: 11.2 - 11.11, 11:00 - 19:00 📍: 1st Floor, ZA · Andrews & George Building, No.108, East Beijing Road, @rockbund__shanghai, Shanghai / 洛克·外滩源 上海市黄浦区北京东路118号 众安·美丰大楼1楼 Alice Gong Xiaowen @alice_gong_xiaowen Xingzi Gu @__sing.zi Sihan Guo @sguo_sihan Brittni Ann Harvey @brittniannharvey Harry Gould Harvey IV @harrygouldharveyiv Sizhu Li @sizhuli Gozié Ojini @blestwun Ren Light Pan @sheseemsnice Tianyi Sun @tianyisun_ Dexter Vandersall @dexvandersall Wang Ye @satelitever Yesiyu Zhao @yesiyuzhao Xinyu Zhou @zhouxinyu09 Visuals: Simon Zurui Chen @zurui18 Theingi Thann @theingitt Rebecca Yinan Chen @rebecca_ynchen Curatorial Foreword: Sihan Guo @sguo_sihan Artistic Direction: Jeffrey Ziyu Liu @jeffr2000, Katerina Chenyu Wang @kat1123kat, Azure Qi Zhou @im.azure (alphabetical by last name) media support: Siliang Shen @siliang.s Shuyang Gao @shushugaogao Install images by: Alessandro Wang Venue support: ROCKBUND @rockbund__shanghai #StillShow #Stilllife #NostalgicMayfly #GroupShow #Shanghai #ROCKBUND #ContemporaryArt #ShanghaiArt #EmergingArtists