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Distance of the Moon Prada Rong Zhai

PRADA RONG ZHAI "DISTANCE OF THE MOON"

Prada presents “Distance of the Moon,” an exhibition by Shuang Li with the support of Fondazione Prada. The exhibition will be on view from 6 November 2024 to 12 January 2025 at Prada Rong Zhai.
 

PRADA RONG ZHAI

6 November 2024 - 12 January 2025

No. 186 North Shaan Xi Road Jing’an District, Shanghai

Tuesday to Sunday: 10am - 6pm

Distance of the Moon Prada Rong Zhai
Distance of the Moon Prada Rong Zhai
“Distance of the Moon” is Shuang Li’s (China, 1990) first solo institutional exhibition in Asia and features a series of new works conceived especially for this project. The domestic and historic spaces of Prada Rong Zhai offer an architectural and decorative dialogue between Chinese and Western traditions and host light and sound installations and resin objects, as well as a video produced during the pandemic. Shuang Li’s work encompasses various artistic languages, including performance, interactive websites, sculpture, moving images and multimedia installations. Her work, deeply rooted in the contemporary digital landscape, focuses on the diverse forms of interaction and intimacy between the medium and its users, as well as between the mediums themselves. Stemming from the artist’s own experience growing up in China under the historical period of the one-child policy, “Distance of the Moon” delves into the dilemma of communication in the highly mediated reality we live in today, as well as the complicated mother-child relationship. Starting with the artist’s personal challenges in exchanging emotions within the household, the exhibition unfolds by highlighting the complexities of maternal bonds through a multi-dimensional narrative. At the heart of the project lies a lost letter to Shuang Li’s mother, translated into a site-specific light and sound display, thereby transcending into the ethereal.
Distance of the Moon Prada Rong Zhai
The title "Distance of the Moon" comes from Italo Calvino’s book Cosmicomics. Its opening story with the same title describes a prehistorical time when the gravity between the moon and the earth was different than today. At one point during their orbits, they would get really close to each other, and people on the earth would take out a ladder to climb up to the moon to collect something called moon milk. One night, when people were on the moon as usual, gravity suddenly changed, drawing the moon far away from the earth. Amidst the chaos, some people managed to jump back to earth before it was too far, while others remained on the moon forever. Li found a lot of comfort in this story during the pandemic while stuck in Europe, unable to travel home.
Distance of the Moon Prada Rong Zhai

Biographical Notes

 

Shuang Li (b.1990, Wuyi Mountains, China) received her MA in Media Studies from New York University in 2014. Shuang Li currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Recent solo shows include “I’m Not”, Swiss Institute, New York, United States (2024); “Forever”, Peres Projects, Milan, Italy (2023); “Death Star”, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); “nobody’s home”, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany (2022); “Among Us”, Cherish, Geneva, Switzerland (2021); “Exit Wound”, Callie’s, Berlin, Germany (2020); “I Want to Sleep More but by Your Side”, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany (2020); “Intro to Civil War”, Open Forum, Berlin, Germany (2019); “If Only the Cloud Knows”, Sleepcenter, New York, United States (2018); “Comment il s’appelle”, Lab 47, Beijing, China (2016).

 

Recent group exhibitions include Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2024 (BIM’24): “A Cosmic Movie Camera”, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland (2024); Whitney Biennial 2024: “Even Better Than the Real Thing”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States (2024); Out of Place, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China (2024); “Paraventi”, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy; “Cosmos Cinema”: The 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2023); “Inner Voices and Exterior Visions”, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2023); RAM Highlights 2022:” The Good Life”, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2022); “The Milk of Dreams”, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2022).

IMAGE CREDITS

 

Exhibition views of “Shuang Li: Distance of the Moon” , Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai. Photo: Alessandro Wang

Portrait of Shuang Li, photo by Mathilde Agius 

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