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Vernisáž výstavy Echo of Being (Jianquan Li)
Opening of the exhibition Echo of Being (Jianquan Li)
Event by: Atrium Žižkov
Location: Atrium Žižkov, Čajkovského 12, Praha 3
About event
Opening of the exhibition of photographer and visual artist Jianquan Li, who in his works explores how our perception changes and what traces memories leave behind.
Part of the program will be a concert performance of the piano pieces created for the author's book of photographs and a subsequent debate with the artist. The temporary installation connects photography, sound and gentle movement into a changing space in which images and memories appear, disappear and return again.
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program
18.15 | concert Veronika Sivíčková (piano) and Iva Partridge-Junková (flute)
18.45 | Author Comment Jianquan Li
18.55 | Short guided tour
19.10–21 h | free program
⬭ free entry
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Jianquan Li is a photographer and visual artist working in Prague. He is currently finishing his master's studies at UMPRUM.
In his work, he works with photography, author's photo books and graphic techniques. He is interested in themes of memory, intimacy, desire and cultural distance. He perceives photography not only as an image, but also as a material and a space for experimentation. By working with light, paper, smoke or physical interventions on the surface, he investigates how our perception changes and what traces memories leave behind.
[ENG]
Echo of Being brings together a hand-bound photobook and a photographic projection installation on translucent chiffon fabric, creating a quiet space where images, sound, memory, and absence slowly unfold.
Across the space, projected images drift across the chiffon, dissolving into layers of light, fabric, and shadow. Moving between visibility and disappearance, they evoke intimacy, distance, and the fragile traces left by passing moments.
At the center of the work is the photobook, which unfolds in two reading directions through two interconnected visual sequences. The installation extends this experience into space, allowing the images to become unstable, layered, and partly transparent.
Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the exhibition invites viewers to move between the book, projected images, music, and material presence, encountering traces that remain visible, yet never entirely fixed.
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programme
18.15 | Live music performance by Veronika Sivíčková (piano) and Iva Partridge-Junková (flute)
18.45 | Artist talk by Jianquan Li
18.55 | Short guided viewing
19.10–21 h | Open viewing and conversation
⬭ free entry
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Jianquan Li is a Chinese photographer and visual artist based in Prague, currently completing his MA in the Studio of Photography at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM).
Working with photography, photobooks, and woodblock printing, his practice explores memory, intimacy, desire, and the emotional distance between people, places, and images. Influenced by Chinese visual traditions and printmaking, he approaches photography not only as an image, but also as a material surface.
Through light, paper, ink, scratches, burning, and other physical interventions, his works consider how memory and perception can be transformed, leaving both visible and invisible traces.
Part of the program will be a concert performance of the piano pieces created for the author's book of photographs and a subsequent debate with the artist. The temporary installation connects photography, sound and gentle movement into a changing space in which images and memories appear, disappear and return again.
—
program
18.15 | concert Veronika Sivíčková (piano) and Iva Partridge-Junková (flute)
18.45 | Author Comment Jianquan Li
18.55 | Short guided tour
19.10–21 h | free program
⬭ free entry
—
Jianquan Li is a photographer and visual artist working in Prague. He is currently finishing his master's studies at UMPRUM.
In his work, he works with photography, author's photo books and graphic techniques. He is interested in themes of memory, intimacy, desire and cultural distance. He perceives photography not only as an image, but also as a material and a space for experimentation. By working with light, paper, smoke or physical interventions on the surface, he investigates how our perception changes and what traces memories leave behind.
[ENG]
Echo of Being brings together a hand-bound photobook and a photographic projection installation on translucent chiffon fabric, creating a quiet space where images, sound, memory, and absence slowly unfold.
Across the space, projected images drift across the chiffon, dissolving into layers of light, fabric, and shadow. Moving between visibility and disappearance, they evoke intimacy, distance, and the fragile traces left by passing moments.
At the center of the work is the photobook, which unfolds in two reading directions through two interconnected visual sequences. The installation extends this experience into space, allowing the images to become unstable, layered, and partly transparent.
Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the exhibition invites viewers to move between the book, projected images, music, and material presence, encountering traces that remain visible, yet never entirely fixed.
—
programme
18.15 | Live music performance by Veronika Sivíčková (piano) and Iva Partridge-Junková (flute)
18.45 | Artist talk by Jianquan Li
18.55 | Short guided viewing
19.10–21 h | Open viewing and conversation
⬭ free entry
—
Jianquan Li is a Chinese photographer and visual artist based in Prague, currently completing his MA in the Studio of Photography at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM).
Working with photography, photobooks, and woodblock printing, his practice explores memory, intimacy, desire, and the emotional distance between people, places, and images. Influenced by Chinese visual traditions and printmaking, he approaches photography not only as an image, but also as a material surface.
Through light, paper, ink, scratches, burning, and other physical interventions, his works consider how memory and perception can be transformed, leaving both visible and invisible traces.