On the opening weekend of “Zhao Bandi: China Party,” French art critic and curator Henry Périer presents an overview of Zhao Bandi’s career and his works included in the current exhibition. The audience will then be invited to engage in a Q&A session with Périer. Attendees will be given the opportunity to engage in an open dialogue with a curator well acquainted with both Zhao Bandi and his work.

“Zhao Bandi: China Party”, running from August 5th to October 22nd at the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA), is the artist’s first institutional solo show within China. The exhibition attempts to outline nearly three decades of the artist’s practice and presents more than a dozen of his works and projects from 1987 to the present. The included works span fashion design, video, film, performance, and painting. For Zhao, social development is a hybrid process, which he has described as “a fantastic party” that conflates the joys and sorrows of life. This exhibition highlights a practice that, rooted in a long tradition of social realism, has shown a unique ability to confound the distinction between truth and fiction. The language of the event is French, with Chinese translation.

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