Cao Shu, Yao Qingmei & Yin Yunya “Lie Between” at ShanghART, Beijing

Beijing Oomph 2025 is a curated roundup of the best contemporary art exhibitions held by galleries and institutions across the city, coinciding with Beijing Dangdai and Gallery Weekend at the end of May.

The exhibition “Lie Between”, which will showcase video installation works by Cao Shu, Yao Qingmei and Yin Yunya. The artists have focused on the general situation of individuals in modern society from different perspectives, in a manner that echoes the deconstruction and reconfiguration of time and space through the camera, as well as the metaphorical virtualization of reality. They have used multiple media to explore the subtleties and complexities between individuals and groups, discipline and resistance, and disconnection and symbiosis.

Physical space gains social significance through its functional role as a site for human interaction. Exhibition space, by dissolving rigid boundaries via artwork displays, become continuously generative, mobile fields. These works involve artists and performers—both present and absent—while inviting viewers to engage the space through embodied perception. The notion of “subject” defies singular definition within the immediate site, instead performing a polyphonic enactment of tensions—between collectives and individuals, within societal structures of entanglement and alienation, dependence and defiance

at ShanghART, Beijing
until June 29, 2025