Hu Wei: Touching A Fabric of Holes

The artist’s first solo institutional exhibition, exploring the thread of Hu Wei’s artistic practice over the past few years through videos, installations, and sculptures. The exhibition showcases his latest three channel video, The Rumbling (2023), which is supported by Macalline Art Center.

A visual variation of the interweaving videos of landscapes and human traces, The Rumbling captures a forsaken quarry in Southern China. The protagonists in the footage have long vanished, while the stones that were extracted and transported have been used for reclaiming land from sea, and the abandoned debris has formed a new topography. How to present an absent scene? How to trace human migrations and the temporal scales they represent? These have become the focus of this new work.