Jiang Penqyi was born in the city of Yuanjiang in the Hunan Province in 1977, and graduated from Beijing Institute of Art and Design in 1999. As a rising star in the new media art field, he is famous for his Unregistered City series, which describes how the streets of Beijing suffer from demolitions and reconstructions due to excessive urbanization in a miniature format. Jiang’s imageries, in which actual cityscapes overlap with fragments of demolished ruins, stirs awake the minute senses we experience amidst the rapid process of urbanization, chaos and confusion, terror, and a sense of nostalgia for all bygone things. The piece presented at Arario Gallery, titled, ‘Sudden’ was produced with the support of Frac des Pays de la Loire, a residency program in France. The viewers can see how Jiang empties out and focuses the mind to seek out the fundamental self and the origins of all things. The main character, meditating while serenely rowing on a pond in the forest, experiences the state of physical and mental transcendence, becoming one with the cosmos.