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Synopsis

ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present Steel Garden, a solo exhibition by Paris-based artist Yao Qingmei, marking her first major presentation with the gallery. Known for an interdisciplinary practice that bridges performance, video, photography, and installation, Yao examines how bodies move through - and are shaped by - structures of power, public ritual, and the choreography of collective life. Across her body of work, Yao Qingmei articulates a distinctive, incisive voice within contemporary art - one attuned to the shifting dynamics of patriotism, memory, and public space in the twenty-first century. Steel Garden offers a focused yet expansive lens into her practice, foregrounding an artist whose observations of ritual, power, and lived experiences resonate far beyond their point of origin.
Artist: Yao Qingmei

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