Press Release

16 NOV – 5 JAN, 2014

OPENING PARTY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16th, 2013 6 – 9pm ALL WELCOME!

Group Exhibition featuring:

Chinaman AKA MC Yan
Emma Fordham
Greg Girard
Island6
John Jacobsmeyer
Shay Kun
Eric Leleu
Li Lihong 李立宏
Lu Xinjian 陆新建
Wang Qing 王青
Xzerokool
Ying Yefu 婴野赋
Zhang Lehua 张乐华

ART LABOR Gallery is very excited to host this stellar group show exploring the aspects of this city and its international identity as an oft included member of the top cosmopoleis.
NEW YORK, LONDON, PARIS, TOKYO…. SHANGHAI!

And while certainly not lacking in style, energy, wealth or general impressiveness, we still aren’t sure if New York and Shanghai are complete equals. What is this difference, and what is our relationship to this incredible place?

Eric Leleu, “This is a Photo Opportunity,” 2012, Inkjet print,dibond, 100x80cm, Edition of 5
Eric Leleu，《这是个拍照机会》，2012年，喷墨打印，100×80厘米,共5版

Most people love it, and some of us love to hate it at certain moments. But just like Londoners or New Yorkers,with all those cities’ litany of misery and issues, one can never quite quit it… nor stop grumbling about taxi drivers, air pollution and unheated homes.

ART LABOR is very pleased to present this group of exhibition of some of the artists we feel best able to express these emotions toward a complex boomtown hosting a varied population of both locals, “waidiren” from the second tier and the countryside, and imports from across the globe.