Museum - Lianzhou Foto

D-2 Save the date! On 29 November, the Winter Exhibitions of the LMP will open at the same time as the Fifteenth Edition of the Festival will open. Birdhead(China): Welcome to Birdhead World Again/2019/Lianzhou... Curator: Duan Yuting Zhang Xiao(China): Apple Curator: Duan Yuting Denis Darzacq(France): Prey for the Shadows Curator: Francois Cheval Sukanya Ghosh(India): Repairing the Work of Time Curator: Francois Cheval Date: November 29, 2019 - April 5, 2019 Venue: Lianzhou Museum of Photography

Lianzhou Foto is fifteen years old Two years ago, after over a decade long photographic journey, we opened the LMP, granting China its first public institution dedicated to the medium. On November 29, we will celebrate the festival and the museum with the opening of the four Winter Museum exhibitions and Lianzhou Foto's fifteenth edition...

A Chance for the Unpredictable On November 29, we will celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Lianzhou Foto festival and the opening of the Museum’s winter exhibitions. This year our guest curator for the Theme Exhibition is Swiss Foundation for Photography's Director Peter Pfrunder . Under the title 'A Chance for the Unpredictable', we will present 24 exhibitions exploring the uncontrollable aspects and the unpredictable elements that leave their traces on the photographic... image. Photography is closely linked to the idea of control, it is often about carefully composing images, adjusting camera settings, staging simulation of reality in the studio in an attempt to ward off the unexpected. In contrast, the photographers featured in the theme exhibition explore the tension between controlling the image and capturing the unexpected, between conscious perception and the unseen. Their work embrace the uncontrollable unpredictable happenings as part of the beauty, the poetry and the magic of photography. Date : 29 November 2019 - 03 January 2020 Location : Lianzhou, Qingyuan, Guangdong, China Curators : Peter Pfrunder, Duan Yuting List of Artists exhibited : Ahn Jun (Korea) Alex Hanimann (Switzerland) Anna Niskanen (Finland) Clare Strand (UK) Clément Lambelet (Switzerland) Coca Dai (China) , Curated by Holly Roussel (US) collectif_fact (Switzerland/UK) Daisuke Yokota (Japan) Delio Jasse (Angola) Ester Vonplon (Switzerland) Hayahisa Tomiyasu (Japan) Jenny Rova (Sweden/Switzerland) Ji Zhou (China) Jules Spinatsch (Switzerland) Kurt Caviezel (Switzerland) Li Lang (China) Liu Ke & Huang Huang (China) Lukas Felzmann (Switzerland / US) Pak Sheung Chuen (Hong Kong) Qian Haifeng (China) Rinko Kawauchi (Japan) Seba Kurtis (Argentina) Tami Xiang (China / Australia) Wang Juyan (China)

Golden week started with some Game play for the young audience of LMP. Kids were invited to participate in a drama workshop exploring the themes of borders and property around the exhibition ‘Stupid Borders’ by Artist Rubén Martín de Lucas. For a day the exhibition’s central installation became the land of an imaginary kingdom and a limitless playground for the kids of Lianzhou. Following our Fall Exhibitions Little Adventurer guide, the family and kids of Lianzhou set off on a treasure hunt, looking for details and uncovering stories behind the artworks. Little adventurers left with their hands full of little art pieces of their own, souvenir stickers from the exhibition of Zhao Qian ’A Field Guide’

thankseveryone who joined us to celebrate the start of our fall program - whether at the Exhibition opening at LMP on Saturday or at the Artists talks hosted by @timesmuseum on Sunday Our Fall Exhibitions will be running until November 11 at Lianzhou Museum of Photography

Artists and creative teams in their natural elements for the upcoming Opening of LMP Fall Exhibitions

D-1 On August 31, the LMP invites you to discover its Fall program with four new exhibitions from Chinese, American and Spanish photographers : Zhao Qian, Wang Yishu, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Rubén Martín de Lucas.

Work in progress Preparing for the Opening of LMP Fall Exhibitions on August 31 : ‘Haley Morris-Cafiero : The Visible Woman’... ‘Zhao Qian : A Field Guide’ ‘Rubén Martín de Lucas : Stupid Borders’ ‘Wang Yishu : Burning Sun’ See more

D-5 On August 31, the LMP invites you to discover its Fall program with four new exhibitions from Chinese, American and Spanish photographers : Zhao Qian, Wang Yishu, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Rubén Martín de Lucas. August 31 - November 11... Lianzhou Museum of Photography 120 Zhongshan South Road Lianzhou, Guangdong See more

LMP FALL EXHIBITIONS On August 31, the exhibition ‘A Field Guide’ by Chinese Artist Zhao Qian will open at Lianzhou Museum of Photography. Frequently flying between San Francisco and Shanghai, Zhao Qian experienced cultural displacement, travelling back and forth, from one spotless airport to the other, saturated with flattened screens, global signs and language. ‘A Field Guide’ gathers these elements from the contemporary visual landscape and strips them of meaning by pull...ing them out of context, displacing and distorting them. In this confusion of his own devise, Zhao Qian compiles an imaginary field guide with infinite paths to be roamed. LMP Fall Exhibitions August 31 - November 11 ‘A Field Guide’ Zhao Qian

LMP FALL EXHIBITIONS On August 31, the exhibition ‘The Visible Woman’ will open at Lianzhou Museum of Photography, presenting two projects from the American photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero that explore the act of reflection in photography. ‘Wait Watchers’ forces us to confront our reliance on models of temperance as guides and our own capacity to exclude. And in ‘The Bully Pulpit’, she faces cyber-bullying head-on, parodying its animosity. She imitates her detractors, fla...unting their insults and, in doing so, turns their hatred around. Her performance is an approach where the "I" is not a "refusal of the self", on the contrary, it is the affirmation of an individual, social and artistic stance. LMP Fall Exhibitions August 31 - November 11 ‘The Visible Woman Haley Morris-Cafiero

LMP FALL EXHIBITIONS On August 31, Lianzhou Museum of Photography will present ‘Burning Sun’ an overview of fifteen years of photography by Chinese photographer Wang Yishu, guiding us through his ordinary yet unfamiliar scenes. Wang Yishu once worked as one of the top photojournalists in Chinese media. This allowed him to travel across China, from metropolitan cities to remote villages, capturing images along the way. While the media’s focus was on pursuing clear stor...ies with affecting narratives and striking effects, Yishu’s interest lay in exploring daily mundane situations and how they conveyed the complexities of China’s reality. LMP Fall Exhibitions August 31 - November 11 ‘Burning Sun’ Yishu Wang

LMP FALL EXHIBITIONS On August 31, Lianzhou Museum of Photography will present ‘Stupid Borders’ by Spanish Artist Rubén Martín de Lucas as part of its Fall Exhibitions program. ‘Stupid Borders’ is a set of conceptual projects that questions the idea of "nation and points at the strange feeling of possession that man exerts towards the Earth, an entity which transcends us in age.... In the series ‘Iceberg Nations’, Rubén Martín de Lucas and his team board on several icebergs to equip them with nationality and flag. This project was made in Greenland choosing, among the ancient glaciers dating back to over 20 thousand years old, the icebergs ready to dilute and disappear. In the series ‘Minimal Republic’, the artist choses a 100 m2 space outlined on the ground, located with GPS coordinates and with its own specific time period, inhabited by a human form. Republics whose limit always responds to an artificial criterion that is geometry, whose duration never exceeds 24 hours and whose only inhabitant is the artist himself. The results of these actions are ephemeral microstates" exploring the intangible nature of nation, a mental construct present only in the collective imagination but which nevertheless play a central part in all state violence and all forms of government. LMP Fall Exhibitions August 31 - November 11 ‘Stupid Borders’ Rubén Martín de Lucas