Trace of Existence

From 24 January to 13 March, 2016, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents “Trace of Existence,” a group exhibition featuring eight artists from China and abroad located in the Central Gallery. Including painting, video, and installation, the exhibition explores how an artwork’s rhetoric—the “trace” of its creation—is constructed within different contexts and states of existence, as well as through specific life experiences and artistic practices. Taking its title from the exhibition “Trace of Existence: A Private Showing of Chinese Contemporary Art’ 98,” curated by Feng Boyi on the eastern fringes of Beijing, the exhibition not only presents a set of explorations in experimental art, but also investigates the state of cross-cultural interaction at the local and global levels.