Dai Guangyu's solo exhibition “Ink Games” explores the metamorphosis of ink, its symbolic power and its cultural, social and political connotations, in a selection of installation, painting and performance work dating from 1997 to 2008.
The common thread of these works is ink – not the only medium that the artist is skilled and imaginative in manipulating, but one that he is most fluent in working with and which is gradually becoming his trademark.

Works include the performance photography Picturesque Landscape, Landscape, Ink Ice and Geomancy, Ink, Ice, where Chinese characters drawn in ink on the frozen surface of lakes show that landscapes are ever changing yet that Chinese culture is at risk of disappearing; the floating Clothing that relate the art of love with ink paintings of small erotic scenes, hidden behind traditional painted Chinese landscapes; installation Hospice Care with babies nourished by dripping ink.

Dai Guangyu’s “Ink Games” reveals the world of a socially engaged artist whose work is reminder that culture is the history of memory and change.

Ink Games at ifa gallery
621 Changde Road
November 1, 08 - January 12, 09