ShanghART gallery is so pleased to present Waterworks, an exhibition which brings together new works by Geng Jianyi, Wu Shanzhuan, and Yang Fudong, three of the key figures in the Yangtze River Delta art scene over the past twenty years. Drawing titular inspiration from “Tap Water Factory,” an unrealized 1987 installation by Geng Jianyi which questions premises of seeing and being seen through a maze-like configuration of walls.

Geng Jianyi’s water-related installation uses cameras to set up a curious connection between what happens inside and outside the space; Yang Fudong’s film unfolds inside a movie-lot snowstorm with a selection of documentary material; Wu Shanzhuan presents a suite of five hundred meticulously rendered drawings, playing on his mythical character of the Butterfrog. On the most basic level, each of the three suites of work maintains some connection to that most basic substance, water, and to its manipulation by human structures.