"Black Void presents its first solo exhibition, The Sky, Oscillating, at the historic Bund·City Hall as part of the 24th China Shanghai International Arts Festival. The interdisciplinary collective, founded and directed by Yixuan Cai, with partner Yuhan Xiao and core member Yun Hong, brings together practitioners from digital media, architecture, data science, and music. The exhibition gathers more than ten works developed across three years of research, using light, atmospheric data, and spatial installation to examine the relationship between natural systems and human-made infrastructures."
"Set within the century-old building in , the exhibition uses the existing architecture as an active framework. Daylight passing through the hall's arched windows gradually shifts the atmosphere from gold to orange to blue, creating a temporal backdrop for three chapters: Stellar Solar Impulse, Extraterrestrial Life, and Atmospheric Echo. Moving shadows and projected visual layers interact with the stone surfaces, linking historical materiality with the exhibition's focus on environmental change."
"The curatorial approach centers on clouds, carbon, light, and electricity, elements treated not as effects but as carriers of information. The works trace how these natural forces are reshaped by industrial production, digital networks, global energy systems, and conflict. Solar radiation becomes electrical output through silicon wafers; human activity contributes aerosols, emissions, micro-particles, and electromagnetic signals to the atmosphere; and speculative biological agents on Mars highlight future intersections between ecology and technology."
An interdisciplinary collective stages a site-responsive exhibition in a historic Bund·City Hall that uses architecture, daylight, and spatial installations to map environmental transformations. More than ten works developed over three years employ light, atmospheric measurements, and data visualization to link clouds, carbon, electricity, and light as carriers of information. The presentation divides into three chapters—Stellar Solar Impulse, Extraterrestrial Life, and Atmospheric Echo—where shifting daylight, moving shadows, and projected layers interact with stone surfaces. The works trace connections between solar radiation, silicon-based electricity, aerosols and emissions, electromagnetic signals, and speculative biological scenarios on Mars to reveal entanglements of natural systems and human technologies.
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