On July 6, 2026, Wide Angle° – Youth Experimental Project Space launched its third exhibition of the fourth session, Heterogeneous Resonance – Porcelain · Schlieren Imaging · Digital Sculpture, at Gallery C on the 3rd floor of CAFA Art Museum. Yu Yang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of CAFA; Han Wenchao, Secretary of the Directly-Affiliated Party Branch of the CAFA Art Museum; and Yang Jie, Director of the Faculty Affairs Department and Human Resources Department of CAFA, delivered speeches respectively. Wang Ruiying, Project Manager of the CAFA Institute of Art & Design and curator of this exhibition, together with the three participating artists — Pan Jingru, Associate Professor of the CAFA School of Design, He Yisha, Head of the Media Department of the CAFA Art Museum, and Li Wenlong, Associate Professor of the CAFA School of Design — each gave a brief introduction to the exhibition and its featured works. Gao Gao, Deputy Director of the CAFA Art Museum, presided over the opening ceremony.
Speech by Yu Yang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
In his speech, Yu Yang pointed out that this exhibition delivers artistic expressions of homogeneous resonance through heterogeneous media including ceramics, digital technology and schlieren imaging. Essentially, the three artists, via their individual artistic practices, offer concrete responses to the core issues of our era: in an age dominated by digital art and artificial intelligence, what role should art academies play? How can we engage with traditions? How can we perceive life? And how may the seemingly cold medium of digital art capture warm artworks and the warmth of life itself? Beyond encapsulating the three artists’ reflections on art and life, the exhibition also carries enlightening implications for the Central Academy of Fine Arts across creation, teaching, research, exhibition curation, as well as communication and exchange.
Han Wenchao, Secretary of the Directly Affiliated Party Branch of CAFA Art Museum, Delivered a Speech
In his speech, Han Wenchao first reviewed the overall progress of the Wide Angle — Youth Experimental Project Space since its proposal. He extended his congratulations to the curator and the three participating artists. He noted that while the three artists employ diverse materials and expressive forms, their creations are all rooted in traditional culture and cultural heritage. This embodies the young generation of faculty’s commitment to "upholding fundamental traditions while pursuing innovation". On one hand, they inherit traditional artistic vocabularies and cultural origins, holding fast to the core cultural lineage of the nation; on the other hand, they actively embrace the new era and deliver contemporary artistic expressions via new technologies. Han Wenchao pointed out that this exhibition represents academic exploration and independent critical thinking undertaken by young faculty in their research and creative practice, and this is the significance that varied exhibitions bring to the academic community.
Speech by Yang Jie, Director of the Faculty Affairs Department and Human Resources Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
In his speech, Yang Jie, Director of the Faculty Affairs Department and Human Resources Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, emphasized that the Wide Angle — Youth Experimental Project is experimental and exploratory in nature, aiming to address emerging issues and new ideological dimensions behind artistic creation. In this era of leaping advances in artificial intelligence technology, it is vital to stay true to original aspirations and academic ideals. The project enables broader audiences to witness the strength of the Academy and the creative trajectory of young artists.
Speech by Wang Ruiying, Project Manager of the Institute of Art and Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts and Curator of the Exhibition
In her speech, Wang Ruiying, Project Manager of the Institute of Art and Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and curator of this exhibition, clarified the core question explored by the show: What connections can be generated when seemingly vastly different media are placed within one space? Wang Ruiying pointed out that works by the three faculty members Pan Jingru, He Yisha and Li Wenlong all converge on the blurring of boundaries. Ceramics blur the line between reality and illusion, as well as the bond between figuration and abstraction; 3D printing bridges the divide between the virtual and the tangible; digital media reconstructs the coordinate system linking tradition and contemporaneity.
Speech by Pan Jingru, Participating Artist and Associate Professor of the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts
In her speech, Pan Jingru, Participating Artist and Associate Professor of the School of Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, sincerely thanked all guests and faculty for their attendance, and briefly introduced her exhibited works Central Axis Kaleidoscope and Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis is a projection installation that explores the symbiotic relationship between traditional craftsmanship and artificial intelligence. Central Axis Kaleidoscope, by contrast, leverages digital technology to transform traditional patterns embedded in the Central Axis cultural heritage into flowing visual rhythms on screen. Essentially, both Metamorphosis and Central Axis Kaleidoscope examine, to varying degrees, the modes of existence and concrete manifestations of traditional artistic forms as they become spectacles within the contemporary AI context. The distinction lies in their respective focuses: Metamorphosis centers on two contrasting orders—the agrarian civilizational order embodied by handcrafted traditional patterns, and the mechanical rational order manifested by modern artificial intelligence technology. Meanwhile, Central Axis Kaleidoscope directly renders traditional aesthetic elements into visual spectacles.
Speech by He Yisha, Exhibiting Artist and Head of the Media Department of CAFA Art Museum
In her speech, He Yisha, Exhibiting Artist and Head of the Media Department of the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, extended sincere gratitude to all distinguished guests, faculty members and colleagues from the Art Museum. He Yisha presented two series of works in this exhibition, namely Bone Series and Shell-Breaking Series. For Bone Series, she poured high-white ceramic slip into moulds to create thousands of thin, fragile animal bone replicas of diverse shapes. As for Shell-Breaking Series, porcelain is adopted to reproduce the fragmented forms of broken eggshells. Drawing on porcelain’s unique physical properties — hardness, fineness, pure whiteness, permanence and fragility — the two series powerfully symbolize the eternity and transience, fortitude and vulnerability, vitality and extinction of life. Moreover, the works subtly convey a distinctive gentle temperament inherent to women’s contemplation of life. Through authentic artistic language, He Yisha’s creations profoundly express a primal life experience that transcends time and geography, achieving a perfect integration of form and content.
Speech by Li Wenlong, Exhibiting Artist and Associate Professor of the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Li Wenlong, Associate Professor of the School of Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, expressed his sincere gratitude to all present guests and faculty. Li Wenlong exhibited his work Time Lion for this show. While creating this piece, the artist drew a parallel between the evolutionary logic of stone lion motifs in traditional Chinese culture and the generative logic of images produced by modern AI technology. He leveraged AI to generate brand-new artistic forms from the vast archive of traditional stone lion imagery. Such images derived from pre-existing images raise entirely new research questions for artists, audiences, art historians and art critics alike. The powerful full-spectrum searching and infinite generative capacity of AI both obscure and magnify the artist’s subjective vision. Meanwhile, the singular fixed quality of newly generated images largely conceals the complexity embedded within them. Nevertheless, until artificial intelligence develops autonomous consciousness, these images of images, shadows of shadows, remain nothing more than another manifestation of human subjective awareness and specific cultural contexts.
Gao Gao, Deputy Director of CAFA Art Museum, presided over the event.
Group Photo of Guests
Group Photo of the Exhibition Team
On-Site Exhibition Viewing
We look forward to young faculty and artists growing alongside the platform Wide Angle — Youth Experimental Project Space. Riding the tides of the times, we will jointly witness the historical evolution of Chinese contemporary art.
The exhibition will remain on view until September 4.
Exhibited Works
Heterogeneous Resonance — Porcelain · Pattern Projection · Digital Sculpture
Exhibition Dates: July 7 – September 4, 2026
Venue: Gallery C, 3rd Floor, Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
Organizers：CAFA Art Museum
Faculty Affairs Department (Human Resources Office), Central Academy of Fine Arts
Faculty Development Center, Central Academy of Fine Arts
Academic Director: Lü Pinjing
Curator: Wang Ruiying
Artists: Pan Jingru, He Yisha, Li Wenlong
Visual Design: Yan Yang
Editor-in-Chief: He Yisha
Editor: Du Yinzhu
