Artwork: Evolution-3
Artist: Sun Haiting
Year: 2021
Media: Giclee print
Size: 90×120cm
Edition: 1/3
Price: RMB 15,000
Evolution explores an ancient yet constantly renewed issue: how humans can repair, transform, strengthen or find replacement for their bodies with the help of technology. Sun’s images do not directly present the human body, but instead focus on places and equipment that are used to intervene and modify the body, showing a rapid evolutionary process brought about not by natural selection but by technology advancements. These processes appear in hospitals, laboratories and rehabilitation centres, and are largely focused on the manufacturing and development of exoskeleton and prosthesis.
Evolution is essentially focused on the people who are absent. The calm, objective, detailed images are devoid of humans offering the empty space they’d occupy to the viewer.
About the Artist
Sun Haiting
Born in 1984 in Xi’an, Sun Haiting is an architect, photographer and artist currently based in Beijing. As an architect, Sun focuses his work on architectural design and cultural heritage preservation.
Since 2009, he has been referring to the methodology of typology to photograph a series of objects with similar structures, such as the Facades of Village in the City, Vacant and Building of Background series. The series of works stare at our daily living environment from a calm point of view, showing their poetic, extraordinary and even dissimilar qualities, exploring the boundary between daily life and wonders.
His works have been widely exhibited in institutional group exhibitions in recent years, and included in Yi Tiao, Wallpaper China, Yi Xi, DEMO magazine, Radius, China Business News, amongst others. He has participated in panel talks and lectures at the UCCA, Beijing and OCAT, Shanghai.
About the Gallery
Once Gallery (Beijing, Shanghai)
Once Gallery was founded in the summer of 2021, after presenting an eponymous exhibition in a three-storey old lane house in Shanghai. By the end of the year, the gallery opened its space in Beijing, where founder Sylvia Xue Bai began to collaborate with contemporary artists who employ unique artistic language and whose works resonate with the current times while leaving the spectator with lasting impacts. With its focus on the curatorial context of each presentation, Once Gallery adopts new approaches appealing to those interested in learning and collecting works about artists the gallery represents and stimulates their passion for art. Launched in Beijing/Shanghai, Once Gallery aims to grow steadily and dynamically in the post-pandemic contemporary art landscape.
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