Shan Hai Jing series

Shanhai Scroll — Detail

A mythic atlas measuring 8 metres by 2.2 metres. Mountains, rivers, extraordinary creatures and ancestral stories meet within a single landscape.

Shan Hai Jing · Painting2020 (work)

Full view of the Shanhai Scroll with mountains, rivers and mythic geography — The Shanhai Scroll · 1

The artist demonstrating layers of the Shanhai Scroll under special illumination — The Shanhai Scroll · 2

The Shanhai Scroll displayed in an interior space — The Shanhai Scroll · 3

The artist describes an outer and an inner world: a bird’s-eye landscape under ordinary light, and a network of totems and routes revealed under special illumination.

8 × 2.2 m. Screen images document the work; they do not reproduce its special-light effects.

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