Gene Gallery is delighted to announce Fantasy, on the edge of the earth, the solo exhibition by artist Zhang Haoyan, from June 12, 2022 to July 10, 2022. In Zhang Haoyan’s first solo exhibition, he presents the results of his media practice of video and painting based on the ideas of iconography and media phenomena in the past two years, focusing on many specific screen images.

Myth is the way of speech chosen by history 1, and the “New God-creation Movement” in the historical process is also the basis of Zhang Haoyan’s works. On-screen hero images such as Ultraman once ignited hope for people. After a series of complex media communication behaviors, they dissipated or even lost the original intention of the original character set, becoming a kind of heroic elegy with a tragic undertone. Zhang Haoyan’s practice focuses on videos and paintings with the idea of screen archaeology, rediscovers the popular screen images in childhood, and mixes social issues such as popular culture and globalization. It expresses the dislocation faced by the post-90s generation in cross-cultural and cross-regional communication and translation. It describes their attempts to establish the practice of alienation that exists in a common industrialized civilization and aesthetics.