DATE

June 1 - June 5, 2026 

LOCATION

9b Battersea Square, London SW11 3RA

ARTISTS

Tianjiao Li, Yingqi Wang, Remy Ran, Shijia Song

ABOUT

Crossing is a photography and moving image exhibition exploring the relationship between migration, perception, time, and space.

The exhibition brings together four artists from China who are now living, studying, and creating abroad. Leaving familiar cultural and social environments has not only transformed their personal lives, but also reshaped the ways they observe and represent the world through images.

“Crossing” refers not only to physical movement across geographical borders, but also to emotional and psychological transitions — between past and present, homeland and foreign land, familiarity and estrangement. Through photography and moving image, each artist responds to these experiences from a distinct perspective. Some focus on isolation and distance within urban spaces, while others examine memory, identity, and the subtle emotional shifts that emerge through displacement and adaptation.

The exhibition includes documentary photography, conceptual image-making, experimental photography, archival approaches, and moving image works. Different visual languages and narrative structures coexist within the same space, creating multiple interpretations of what it means to “cross” between cultures, identities, and realities.

Although each artist approaches the world differently, they share a common condition: continuously redefining their relationship with the world while existing between multiple cultural and spatial contexts.

Crossing asks how photography can function as a medium that connects fragmented experiences across time and space, and how images can capture emotional states that often remain difficult to articulate through language alone.

In recent years, an increasing number of young Chinese artists and photographers have chosen to study, live, and work overseas. Cross-cultural experience has gradually become an important aspect of contemporary photographic practice.

At the same time, globalization and digital communication have compressed physical distance while intensifying feelings of disconnection and uncertainty. For artists living between different cultural environments, “crossing” is no longer a temporary action, but an ongoing state of existence.

Photography therefore becomes both a method of observation and a form of reflection — documenting not only external realities, but also the transformation of personal perception over time.

Through the works of four artists, this exhibition aims to present contemporary visual experiences shaped by migration, cultural transition, and shifting identities. While deeply personal, the works also reflect broader social emotions and contemporary conditions shared across borders.

Crossing is not simply an exhibition about relocation, but about the transformation of perception itself.

Through photography and moving image, the four artists document their individual experiences of navigating unfamiliar environments and evolving identities. Their works cross boundaries of geography, memory, and personal history, ultimately converging within a shared exhibition space.

For these artists, photography is not only a tool for recording reality, but also a way of understanding their place within a constantly changing world.