Yu Hong - The World of Saha
The Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai
The Long Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, 2019
Yu Hong is one of China’s most celebrated female artists. Her exhibition at The Long Museum consists of a large comprehensive survey of her work titled “The World of Saha”, a Buddhist expression of great importance to Yu Hong’s personal reflection, meaning “the world to be endured”, the world that is ours.
More than a retrospective, this exhibition is envisioned as an “introspective” into her unique and wide-ranging vocabulary. Yu Hong is primarily known for several series of paintings that she has developed since the beginning of her artistic practice, and this exhibition will trace her evolution into new realms which encompass her painterly reflection through new approaches. The exhibition unfolds her world as a visual opera developed here into four different acts, revealing several parallel universes that subdivide into distinct periods: “Time of Rebirth”, her lifelong commitment to a series of “Portraits”, “Half-Hundred Mirrors” and “Witness to Growth”.
Yu Hong's creative inspiration is known to be grounded in her personal life and everyday surroundings, building a world that ingeniously fuses different perceptions of time, memories and the evolution of emotional states related to her personal inner world. She explores the mutations of women’s everyday lives in China’s changing social, political and cultural debates.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.
Exhibition view, Yu Hong: The World of Saha, Long Museum West Bund, China © Courtesy of the Long Museum and the artist.