UCCA is pleased to announce the opening of Wang Mai: Dire Straits, opening on July 22 (press conference, July 21, 16:00). For this exhibition, Wang has created an immersive environment that completely fills the UCCA’s soaring Nave, transforming it into a spectacular, absurdist landscape that is part waterway and part forest, an analysis of both a disappearing past and an uncertain future. The metaphor of the strait — a narrow divide that must be controlled and that often creates tension — allows Wang Mai to posit a parallel between the physical space in which the exhibition takes place and the wider geopolitical background against which it unfolds.

For more information, please read the “Wang Mai: Dire Straits” press release.