[Frameworks] Tonight Wenhua Shi (online) screening & artist talk (via live chat), 7:30pm ET

[LBurchill]

WATCH link goes live at 7pm ET here:
https://microscopegallery.com/wenhua-shi-senses-of-time/

Microscope Gallery presents an online screening of works by Boston-based
artist Wenhua Shi. The screening will begin on Monday January 4th at 7:30pm
ET and will remain available until Thursday 7th at 10:30pm PT.

The program features ten works in film and video made by Shi between 2006
and today, including the screening premiere of his new video “Because the
Sky is Blue” dedicated to his hometown Wuhan, China. Shi moved to the
United States in 2000 and attended the University of Colorado Boulder,
studying under Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon.

Shi’s attentive and deeply contemplative look on reality — often drawing
connections to shadow play and early cinema — gives shape to intensely
lyrical and tacitly subversive works. Two driving interests of Shi’s
filmmaking are light and time, and more specifically the wonders produced
by sunlight within dark environments as quietly observed by the artist, and
the experience of the passage of time through film.

In the 16mm film “Die Nacht” (2018-19), the camera view is from an unlit
room with an increasingly luminous window overlooking the neighboring
house. In this time-lapse work, this window functions as a sort of
aperture, letting shifting amounts of light through while the sun pans
across the sky like a mechanical tool. “Morgen” (2018-2019) is a film-haiku
on outdoor chairs that are seen only indirectly through the shadows they
cast on a wooden deck and their reflections in rainwater. The piece is
considered a prelude to another work on the program, “Senses of Time”
(2018), which is an investigation of the perception of time via the
fortuitous compositions of light moving across the interiors of a house.

Among other works are two from a series of Vertov-inspired video works that
“re-examine the three different forms of Modernity and its Utopia” titled
“Palimpsest I” (2014), featuring original footage shot in Berlin, and
“Palimpsest II” (2014), a documentation of then-President Richard Nixon’s
trip to China re-edited from personal Super 8mm film material recorded by
Nixon’s aides in Beijing.

Shi’s latest work “Because the Sky is Blue” is a tribute to Muybridge
connecting the photographer’s galloping horse to the briefness of social
media clips. The work deconstructs a dive into the sea by turning footage
from his TikTok feed into an animation through photographic cyanotype
techniques applied to single frames.

Wenhua Shi will be available for a Q&A with the audience via live chat at
8:45pm ET on January 4th.

TO WATCH:

A “WATCH NOW” link will appear at the link above on Monday January 4th at
7pm ET. Passes for viewing give full access to the video program and live
chat.

*General admission $8 (Valid through Thursday January 7, 10:30pm PT)Member
admission $6 (Valid through Thursday January 7, 10:30pm PT)*

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Wenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making, and
investigates conceptual depth in film, video, interactive installations and
sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums, galleries, and
film festivals, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, European
Media Art Festival, Athens Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film
Festival, Pacific Film Archive, West Bund 2013: a Biennale of Architecture
and Contemporary art, Shanghai, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of
Urbanism, and the Arsenale of Venice in Italy. He has received awards
including the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council
on the Arts, and Juror’s Awards from the Black Maria Film and Video
Festival. Shi received a BFA & BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder,
Colorado and an MFA in New Media/Art Practice at the University of
California, Berkley.

Contact Microscope Gallery:  events at microscopegallery.com
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