王翰林：动物资本论 Wang Hanlin: Animal Capital

Fotografiska 作为国际当代影像艺术中心，始终致力于向公众呈现世界级大师杰作的同时，高度聚焦本土先锋影像艺术的独特表达。

值2025年开篇之际，我们将推出本土新锐艺术家项目——1月17日，本土新锐艺术家王翰林个展《动物资本论》将于 Fotografiska 影像艺术中心正式开幕。通过本次展览，我们希望支持具有创新性和独特艺术表达的本土艺术家，促进本土艺术创作的多元发展与交流，为观众呈现更多充满新意与深度的艺术体验。

As a Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art, and Culture, Fotografiska has consistently strived to showcase thought-provoking and cutting-edge visual art to the public.

At the start of 2025, we are proud to launch our Local Emerging Artists Project. On January 17th, the solo exhibition Animal Capital by local artist Wang Hanlin will officially open at Fotografiska Shanghai. Through this exhibition, we aim to support local artists with innovative and distinctive artistic expressions, foster the diverse development and exchange of local art, and provide our audience with more fresh and profound artistic experiences.

《动物资本论》作为Fotografiska 影像艺术中心继2024年12月开幕的世界巡展《宠物总动员》的延伸展览，以“宠物”为话题切入点，旨在通过观察宠物来审视人类，探索人类社会的构成。

As an extension of the global exhibition The Pet Show opened at Fotografiska Shanghai in December 2024, Animal Capital uses "pets" as a starting point to examine humanity. The exhibition aims to explore the structure of human society through the observation of pets.

宠物像一面人类的镜子，映射出人类的态度与思想。当我们以旁观的视角去更深入地观察人与宠物的互动时，这一切将更为明显。我们可以从宠物身上看到人的“问题”，也可在人的身上看到宠物的“痕迹”。

Pets act as a mirror to humanity, reflecting our attitudes and thoughts. When we examine the interactions between humans and pets from an objective standpoint, these reflections become more evident. Through pets, we can discern the "issues" of humans, while also recognizing traces of pets within human behavior.

作为一个持续关注人类情感与精神记录的当代艺术家，王翰林期望通过对图像的研究来探寻人的意识形态。本次展览中，王翰林将“宠物”的概念泛化，“宠物”既指生命体，也涵盖非生命体，同时也体现出不同时代语境的变化。艺术家对过去五年内家庭内部、周遭朋友和社会新闻里，人和宠物的戏谑互动事件进行了观察和总结。探讨了那些看似理性文明的制度背后，宠物如何成为人类社会中各种非常规事件或行为的出口。

As a contemporary artist focused on the exploration of human emotions and the documentation of the human psyche, Wang Hanlin aims to investigate human ideologies through the study of imagery. In this exhibition, he expands the concept of "pets" to encompass not only living beings but also inanimate objects, while reflecting the evolving contexts of different historical periods. Over the past five years, the artist has observed and analyzed the playful interactions between humans and pets within family dynamics, among friends, and in social news. His work delves into how, beneath seemingly rational and civilized systems, pets have become outlets for various unconventional events or behaviors within human society.

关于艺术家

ABOUT THE ARTIST

王翰林，图像艺术家，现工作生活于上海，中央美术学院摄影艺术研究硕士。他的创作持续关注人类精神的记录，从私人情感到集体感受，体会周遭环境的变化和个人历史的流逝，以图像作为主要的表达方式。近年来，他围绕媒介与图像的关系，试图通过对图像的研究来探寻人的意识形态，并追问图像生产的思维模式。曾获柏林C/O人才奖提名（2024）、徕卡奥斯卡巴纳克摄影奖提名（2022）、第八届侯登科纪实摄影奖提名（2022）、西双版纳国际影像展最佳国内摄影师奖（2021）、第七届中国摄影年度排行榜（2020）、TOP20中国当代摄影新锐奖（2019）、首届1839摄影奖大奖（2019），入选索尼世界摄影奖（2018）、第十届三影堂摄影奖（2018）等奖项。作品和文章曾发表于《中国摄影》《中国摄影家》《数码摄影》《画刊》《美国国家地理（中文版）》等刊物，已出版画册《中国当代摄影图录/王翰林》（浙江摄影出版社，2021）。

Hanlin Wang is a visual artist currently living and working in Shanghai. He holds a Master’s degree in Photography from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His work consistently centers on the documentation of human spirituality, spanning from personal emotions to collective experiences. He reflects on changes in the surrounding environment and the passing of personal history, using imagery as his primary means of expression. In recent years, he has focused on the relationship between media and images, attempting to explore human ideology through image-based research, while questioning the cognitive processes behind image production.He has been nominated for the C/O Berlin Talent Award (2024), the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2022), and the 8th Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award (2022). He has received accolades such as Best Domestic Photographer at the Xishuangbanna International Image Festival (2021), the 7th China Photography Annual Ranking (2020), the TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography Emerging Talent Award (2019), and the first 1839 Photography Award Grand Prize (2019). His work was also selected for the Sony World Photography Awards (2018) and the 10th Three Shadows Photography Award (2018).His works and articles are commonly seen in Chinese photography, Chinese photographer, Digital photography, National Geographic Chinese version, and other publications. The album "Atlas of contemporary Chinese photography / Wang Hanlin" has been published.

王翰林：动物资本论

Wang Hanlin: Animal Capital

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2025.1.17- 2025.3.9

Fotografiska 影像艺术中心

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