The Weight of the Invisible: Part II
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen•Jun 07, 2025 — Aug 24, 2025
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Opening: Friday, June 6, 2025, 6–10 pm
The Weight of the Invisible is a two-part exhibition dedicated to the documentary work of the filmmaker and photographer Wang Bing (b. 1967 in Xi’an, China, lives in Paris). The second part brings together photographs, which have been taken in the context of Wang Bing’s debut film West of the Tracks (2002), and two films, Man in Black (2023) and Beauty Lives in Freedom (2018).
While Wang Bing’s films are epic in their length and their historical and political scope, they are less concerned with grand events than with the small gestures and everyday acts on which the concrete form and substance of human life rests. The artist devotes a special kind of attention to the small, incidental, and marginal – one that knows that existential weight does not necessarily lie in the obvious, but rather in the in-between, in the interstitial, in the enduring, and in what accumulates. His films are more physical than verbal, and even when words are spoken, they…
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The Weight of the Invisible: Part II
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen•Jun 07, 2025 — Aug 24, 2025
Press Release
Opening: Friday, June 6, 2025, 6–10 pm
The Weight of the Invisible is a two-part exhibition dedicated to the documentary work of the filmmaker and photographer Wang Bing (b. 1967 in Xi’an, China, lives in Paris). The second part brings together photographs, which have been taken in the context of Wang Bing’s debut film West of the Tracks (2002), and two films, Man in Black (2023) and Beauty Lives in Freedom (2018).
While Wang Bing’s films are epic in their length and their historical and political scope, they are less concerned with grand events than with the small gestures and everyday acts on which the concrete form and substance of human life rests. The artist devotes a special kind of attention to the small, incidental, and marginal – one that knows that existential weight does not necessarily lie in the obvious, but rather in the in-between, in the interstitial, in the enduring, and in what accumulates. His films are more physical than verbal, and even when words are spoken, they…
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