Tag: Photography

La Galerie, Hong Kong, 20 November 2025 to 24 January 2026

La Galerie Paris 1839 presented “Yellow Land and The Sky Garden” from November 20, 2025 through January 24, 2026 at 74 Hollywood Road, Central. The exhibition marked Zhang’s first Hong Kong outing since 2017 and paired recent work from two series. “Yellow Land” extends his long engagement with northern China’s loess plateau and the afterimage of industry. “The Sky Garden” shifts the gaze to engineered green spaces that hover over new urban fabric. In his Yellow River project, Zhang uses a large-format, high-key palette and broad, atmospheric compositions to position small human figures and infrastructure inside vast, muted landscapes. The effect is cool and unsentimental. You read the pictures for evidence of modernization and urban geometry. The gallery anchored the run with bilingual artist talks at the opening.

Pace Gallery, New York, Sept 11 to 25 October, 2025

Paolo Roversi show in Pace’s focused retrospective, titled Along the Way, staged to coincide with New York Fashion Week and running mid-September through late October.

What surprised me, walking into it, was how little the show tried to “convert” the skeptical viewer. A lot of fashion photography in a white-cube gallery arrives with an apologetic posture: please notice the craft, please forget the client, please treat these as pictures not product. Pace mostly sidestepped that anxiety by leaning into Roversi’s real subject, which is not “fashion” so much as the conditions under which someone becomes image. The wall texts and selection emphasized collaborators and long relationships, which is the right frame for him. His best work is basically an extended study in trust, timing, and light.