The exhibition presents new series of work on canvas by Zhong Wei during Beijing’s pandemic control, a sharp-cut lockdown imposed during 2022, where the unpredictable mandatory isolation caused panic on food and daily necessities under such short notice. Invalid Order Signature documented the mixed emotions of the artist during social suspension and how he responses to stress and grief through his creative practice by sourcing fragments from digital culture while deconstructing memes, images, and videos found online and convert them into imagined landscapes, figures, and entities. His loud and complex visual language questioned the power of authority in real life events and how it could influence information on the internet.
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