Huang Peishan | Crack in the Curtain

Crack in the Curtain, the first institutional solo show by Huang Peishan, explores the evolving dialogue between image and space in the digital era.

As AI and post-processing reshape photography’s claim to truth, Huang transforms images into tactile presences.

Using digital editing, AI generation, composite printing, and resin, she creates works that resemble documentary evidence, yet reveal deliberate fissures—becoming “interfaces of illusion” between reality and fiction.
The exhibition reconstructs everyday elements—shower curtains, mirrors, flowing water—into landscapes both familiar and strange.
These destabilize boundaries between private and public, intertwining shelter with discipline, intimacy with exposure.

The “crack” is the curatorial motif: apertures in curtains, ruptures in fabric, fractures in mirrors disclose fluid truths beneath surfaces, offering new ways of seeing.
Suspended between revelation and concealment, this liminal space defines Huang’s creative terrain.
Ultimately, the exhibition invites viewers to reexamine the authenticity of images and the politics of vision itself.
Until July 19
Daily, 10.30am-11pm
RMB80 Weekday, RMB100 Weekend
Ticket covers all ongoing exhibitions in Fotografiska
Fotografiska Shanghai 127 Guangfu Lu, by Jinyuan Lu, Jing'an District 光复路127号, 近晋元路
Source: ThatsShanghai