SHANGHAIREN COVER

The Shanghairen is a collaborative project gathering dozens of emerging and confirmed talents from Shanghai and the rest of the World. the book cover will be exhibited online.

I would like to take part in this project because I want to contribute my own story about the city to this visual event of making a collective memory of Shanghai. I didn't return to this city after the pandemic, considering the changes in my work, I may no longer have the opportunity to live in Shanghai in the future, I want to dedicate this artwork as my farewell to the city.

What I have drawn is not a literal depiction of Shanghai; rather the memory of the only way I used to travel to work. It is basically a miniature of the city: People will be lost in the torrent of a "logo world" which has a vibrant matrix of cultural symbols, old and new, east and west... By collating these icons, brick by brick, I want to collage all the cultural icons into a vivid city on the screen.