Wednesday, January 17, 2024
The digital exhibition, “Exploring the Yangtze River,” is currently being showcased at the Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts in Nanjing. The exhibition, which runs from November 2023 to the end of January 2024, aims to provide the public with an immersive cultural experience centered around the Yangtze River.
Spanning 6,363 kilometers, the Yangtze River originates on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, traversing China from west to east. Its journey encompasses glaciers, cliffs, valleys, towns, dwellings, and ultimately reaches the East Sea near Shanghai.
Historically, the Yangtze River has been described as the poetry of the earth, a temporal pivot, an imaginative vessel, and an emotional bond. Over millennia, the intersecting and evolving culture along the river has become a tangible and intangible landscape, embodying the collective memory and identity of the Chinese nation.
The 2,500-square-meter exhibition hall features a diverse collection of digital ink-wash paintings, split-screen videos, woodblock prints, and sound visualizations. Sixteen talented artists, employing technologies like 4K interaction, Unity 3D, AI, and 3D mapping, present vibrant paintings, films, and immersive installations. The digital journey explores the majesty and romance of China’s great mother river.
Artists embarked on a journey from the Yangtze’s source to its end, capturing historical and natural images, exploring indigenous cultures, and creating a rich tapestry of the world’s longest river.
Notable exhibits include “Sky Flow,” a digital space artwork inspired by a classical Chinese poem, and “The Poetic Realm of the Yangtze River,” a poetic map created through the art form of “ink on paper” by Qiu Zhijie, blending history and fantasy of Chinese culture.
Various artists, including Pan Jingru, Wang Yan, Chen Tianchan, Philipp Artus, and others, used digital images to document the river’s source and showcase the wonders and stories of living creatures.
In the digital age, the Yangtze River is envisioned as a cultural universe of space-time dialogue and information linkage. The exhibition employs ten keywords such as water, rice, earth, wood, culture, language, silk, tea, boat, and bridge to construct a Yangtze River that belongs to everyone. The digital civilization era redefines the river, making it a cultural universe where individuals can see themselves, imagine the future, and explore the meaning of the Yangtze River in the digital age.
Visit the exhibition at the Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts, 181 Mengdu St., Nanjing, China, until January 31, 2024 (Closed on Mondays).
Source: Visionlink Media
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