“Away from Disgrace” is Jiang Pengyi’s fourth solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery. The exhibition will showcase his newest works from three series which involve different experimentation of photographic materials, underscoring Jiang’s persistence to constantly investigate and innovate with the boundlessly generative potentialities of the medium. Deeply inspired by French surrealist philosopher Georges Bataille’s text L’Erotisme, Jiang conceived his recent development of art as an existential inquiry into the inescapable solitude of being, and the role of eroticism in human relationality and spirituality. The three series being showcased, The Sun Matched with the Sea, Dissolution and In Some Time forms a thematic exploration and a way of thinking about human mortality through the making of art.

Image: Dissolution No.11, 2016, Instant film, acid free cardboard, 27.5 x 21.5 cm
图片: 《消融 之十一》，2016，即显胶片、无酸卡纸，27.5 x 21.5 厘米

About Jiang Pengyi (b.1977, China)
Jiang Pengyi graduated from the Beijing Institute of Art and Design in 1999 and the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou in 2014. He has been awarded the Aletti ArtVerona Prize for Photography in 2011, the Jury Grand Prize from the Société Générale Chinese Art Awards in 2010 and the Tierney Fellowship Award from the First Annual Three Shadows Photography Award in 2009. Jiang was invited to participate in the Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012 and was nominated for the Prix Pictet 2012. His work is collected by CAFA Art Museum (China); DSL Collection (France); Frac des Pays de la Loire (France); Fondazione Banca Aletti (Italy); Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection (Switzerland); Kadist Art Foundation (France and USA); Tierney Family Foundation (USA); UniCredit Art Collection (Italy and Germany); and White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection (Australia). He currently lives and works in Beijing, China.