Shuo Shu maps the 4,000-year evolution of the story from timeless myths and literary romances to political propaganda and modern-day censorship. Twenty-nine artists become shapeshifters, distorting language and twisting narratives to fit within codes and secret messages. This exhibition features a range of media: photography, painting, paper, sponge scourers, light bulbs, paper stickers, and large-scale sculpture and installation from marble ru stones, a six-screen compilation of popular “problematic” GIFs, blue-painted bookshelves filled with 7,980 books, and stainless steel beat with 2,000 bullets from a QSZ-92 pistol.
Polit-Sheer-Form Office, Library, 2008, books and bookshelves, 8,000 books each 20 × 13.6 × 1.5cm, 20 bookshelves each 220 × 95 × 25cm
Wang Zhiyuan 王智远, Close to the Warm, 2013. Photograph: Hamish McIntosh. Courtesy the artists and White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney
White Rabbit Gallery
17 December 2022 to 14 May 2023
Sydney
