Weng Fen’s latest photographic series, I would name it a youthful vision of Asia, an idea emerged from post-modern urban Utopianism. The recent urban modernizations of cities all over China seem to be driving the civic societies in China in the direction of a homogeneous urban culture, at the same time eliminating their origins and histories. The differences between north and south are gradually erased by the crazy tides of duplicated cultural spaces which infested with homogeneous skyscrapers. Together with the lamentation of the loss of identity, Weng Fen’s photography allegorically represents the internal motivation behind the civic social ideology of Modernisation.
In July 2006 The Red Mansion Foundation invited Weng Fen to London to show photographs from the series Staring at the Sea and also to create a site specific installation The Viewing Stand. This was Weng Fen’s first solo show in the UK.
“ZOOMING INTO FOCUS”, Singapore art Museum, Singapore
“FOLLOW ME – CHINESE ART AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“UNSPEAKABLE HAPPINESS”, Museo Tamaya, Mexico
“ALWAYS TO THE FRONT – CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART”, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Nordjllands Denmark
“LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES”, Open art museum, Haifa, Israel
“RE(-)VIEWING THE CITY: 2005 GUANGZHOU PHOTO BIENNIAL”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“CHINESE VIEWING WORLD – STARING AT THE SEA BY WENG FEN”, Tong Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
“POSERS”, Courtyard gallery, Beijing, China
“ME, ME, ME!”, Courtyard gallery, Beijing, China
“DIE CHINESEN – FOTOGRAFIE UND VIDEO AUS CHINA”, Kunstmuseum, Germany
“CHINESE BABY”, Marseille, France
“GODS BECOMING MEN”, Frissiras Museum Athens, Greece
“ZOOMING INTO FOCUS”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“CHINESE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPH”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
“ZOOMING INBT FOCUS”, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego Museum of art, San Diego, USA
“OPEN SKY”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
“WENG FEN SOLO SHOW”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
“FROM DESIRES TO WHERE?”, Tang gallery, Bankok, Thailand
“ALORS, LA CHINE? Center Pompidou, Paris, France
“CHINA CONTEMPORARY ART”, Sweden
“FACING NATURE”, Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland
“HOW BIG IS THE WORLD?”, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
“OUT OF THE RED”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
“TOO MUCH FLAVOR, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
“JUNCTION/ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION OFF CHINESE CONTEMPORARY”, Lianyyang Architecture Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“SHANGHAI BIENNALE”, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“PARIS-PEKING”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
“EVERYDAY ATTITUDE”, PingYao International photo Festival, PingYao, China
“NEW PHOTOGRAPHY FROM CHINA”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
“CHINESE MODERNITY”, Museum de Arte Brasileira-MAB, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“TOO MUCH FLAVOR”, 3H Art Center, Shanghai, China
“HOW BIG IS THE WORLD?” OK Contemporary Art Center, Linz, Austria
“VIRTUAL FUTURE”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guongzhou, China
“L,ALBUM DE LA FAMILLE CHINA SEPTEMBER DE LA PHOTO, Galerie Soardi, Nice, France
“NORMAL AND ABNORMAL”, Yuangong Art Gallery, Shanghai, China