Exhibition
What Time Is It Now
Exhibition Name：
What Time Is It Now
Curators：
Ren Baiyu
Ma Xinyi
Artists：
Shi Hui
Wei Wentao
Wang Xuehan
Zhang Kailai
Exhibition dates：
2025.06.04 - 06.15
Opening Time：
2025.06.07(SAT) 6:00 pm -10:00 pm
address:
1005 Falcon Wharf, 34 Lombard Road, London
SW11 3RY
Exhibition Introduction
On June, MoMingTang will present the exhibition 现在几点了 (What Time Is It Now) at its London space. Featuring moving image works by Zhang Kailai, Wang Xuehan, Wei Wentao, and Shi Hui, the exhibition seeks to explore the possible alternative forms of time—a concept that is vast, ancient, and yet deeply intertwined with our daily existence.
In the works of these four artists, time is no longer a linear thread. It is sliced, collaged, compressed, and then expanded. Through these processes, we witness how narratives shift and how what we call “reality” begins to loosen. To imagine other forms of time is also to imagine other ways of living.
In this sense, the exhibition asks: If time is not linear, how might we reinterpret the events of our lives? If the concepts of “past” and “future” are not as fixed as we’ve been taught to believe, how might our emotions transform—and how else might we live?
Artists Introduction
魏文涛 | Wei Wentao
Visual artist and photographer. Wei Wentao graduated from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York and the University of Glasgow in the UK. His work has been exhibited in China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries, and has received numerous awards, including the Kunpeng Award from the 2022 China Youth Photography Promotion Project at the Pingyao International Photography Festival, the PDN Curator Award (2018), the IPA Photography Award (2018), and the PDN Photo Annual Award (2017). He has worked at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, in the studio of artist Adam Fuss, and at Artron Image. He currently lives and works in Beijing. His artistic practice primarily explores how contemporary technology reshapes and redefines human life through photography and other media.
王雪翰 | Wang Xuehan
Born in 1994 in Changde, Hunan, Wang Xuehan primarily works with photography and video installation. Influenced by Eastern traditional culture, his practice often begins with questions and takes an experimental approach to exploring the underlying patterns of the world. He is particularly interested in the expressive possibilities of images across different media, and in using art as a vessel for philosophical and perceptual experimentation.
石慧 | Shi Hui
Independent photographer. Shi Hui holds a master’s degree from the China Academy of Art. Her work focuses on the understanding and exploration of nature, place, and the dimensions of time and space. She currently lives and works between Shanghai and Hangzhou.
张凯来 | Zhang Kailai
(b.1999) Interdisciplinary artist and photographer. She graduated from the University of International Relations and the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in China, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, South Korea, and other regions. Her artistic practice centers on memory, time, and emotion, often explored through analog photography and experimental techniques. Rooted in diverse philosophical reflections, her work captures fleeting moments of beauty and invites viewers to embark on a journey of sensing the self and the world in constant motion.
Curator Introduction
任柏玉｜Ren Baiyu
Born in 1992 in Heilongjiang, and currently based in Shanghai. She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2023 with a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Theory, and now works at Yicang Art Museum in Shanghai. She is an exhibition producer, researcher, and writer. Her research began with photography and moving images, focusing on the intimate relationships between visual media, personal memory, and emotional expression. Through independent writing and curatorial practice, she engages with the lived realities, psychological states, and spiritual predicaments of individuals in our present historical moment. In collaboration with self-organized art communities, she explores the curatorial potential of alternative spaces as a way to restore the connection between art and everyday life.
马昕怡｜Ma Xinyi
Born in 1996 in China. In 2018, she received a Bachelor of Engineering from Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing. She is currently based in Kassel, Germany, studying Art History and Art Theory at Kunsthochschule Kassel, with a concurrent academic focus in Philosophy at the University of Kassel. From 2019 to 2021, she worked at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre as an exhibition coordinator, overseeing exhibition production and related publications at the Beijing venue. She was the Discovery Award section coordinator at the 2021 JIMEI × ARLES International Photo Festival and a core team member of the Three Shadows Photography Award (TSPA) in both 2019 and 2020. In 2023, she served as a preliminary juror for the Experimental Section of HiShorts! Film Festival.
