The Power Station of Art is currently presenting Flatform: Concert for Films and Works, the first major solo exhibition in China by the Italian video and media arts collective Flatform. The show offers a comprehensive look at the group's key works from the past two decades.

Founded in Milan in 2006, Flatform is an interdisciplinary collective operating across video, installation, and live performance. Its films have been featured at prestigious festivals including the Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the BFI London Film Festival.

For Flatform, the moving image has always served as the point of departure. Physical works, whether paintings, sculptures, or performances, serve as material counterparts to the films, translating the intangible nature of moving images into concrete forms found in objects and space.

The exhibition brings together more than a dozen groups of installations, each pairing a film with its corresponding physical work. Among them is a new iteration of Can Not Be Anything Against the Wind, created specifically for Shanghai. Its soundtrack incorporates various wind sounds, spatially distributed across four analog tape recorders. As the tapes rewind, they generate extra layers of wind sound not present in the film itself.

Through the interplay of these works, the exhibition immerses visitors in a finely tuned mechanism of perception, in which light and shadow continually reflect and transform one another. Here, looking becomes more than a visual act; it evolves into an ongoing exploration of the shape of time, material memory, and the limits of the senses.

If you go

When: May 1 to June 28

Where: Power Station of Art, No 678 Miaojiang Road, Huangpu district

Open: 11 am to 7 pm, closed on Mondays

Source: Power Station of Art