"After Dinner Shu Fa, Hong Kong 2012" is a series of photography works created from live performances of calligraphy and painting using ink and dinner leftovers. Shu Fa (Chinese Calligraphy) has always been regarded as an elite Art form in China. To Yangjiang Group, it is a unique medium to develop a diversiform of contemporary Art such as photography, painting, installation, video and performance. The aim of the group is to rebel against the elitism within Shu Fa in modern day China. The group deconstructs calligraphy and words into the origins of their forms and meanings in the context of banal and grass-root culture. On the opening night a live performance consisting of the Artists having dinner and creating two original works on site, combining dinner leftovers and ink as a way to develop a rebellious form of calligraphy.

About Yangjiang Group

Yangjiang Group is an artistic group formed in 2002 in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, by Zheng Guogu (b.1970, Yangjiang), Chen Zaiyan (b.1971, Yangchun) and Sun Qinglin (b.1974, Yangjiang). They have shown all around the world such as the San Diego Museum of Art in USA, Tate Liverpool in UK, Kunthaus Graz in Austria, Mori Art Museum in Japan, Guangdong Museum of Art and He Xiangning Museum of Art in China. They also participated in Art Basel, Lyon Biennial, Documenta, Venice Biennale and the Gwangju Biennale. The group has also been commissioned to create a site-specific work for Frieze Projects 2012 at Frieze London in October.

The group currently lives and works in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China.