{"id":6217,"date":"2025-11-04T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/?post_type=exhibitions&#038;p=6217"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:03:48","slug":"caominghaochenjianjungezhanshuixilianjie","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/exhibitions\/caominghaochenjianjungezhanshuixilianjie\/","title":{"rendered":"Cao Minghao &#038; Chen Jianjun Solo Exhibition\uff1aCurrents of Kinship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of the artistic practice project\u00a0<em>Water System Project<\/em>\u00a0by artist duo Cao Minghao &amp; Chen Jianjun. For years, they have focused on a specific river stretching from Chengdu to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, observing the fishermen, farmers, Qiang ethnic groups, and pastoralist communities living along its banks, as well as the stories, practices, and cosmology surrounding this river system. They trace these elements across diverse geographies, topographies, and histories to develop a non-separatist mindset and reflect upon the world-making. So far, their work has reached the source region (Sanjiangyuan), where the insights they gained during the journey upstream have initiated a new phase in their water system research. This exhibition will feature the artists&#8217; latest creations from their practice at Sanjiangyuan alongside a selection of previous works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly upon reaching the source did we understand how the intangible and invisible water deity \u2018Lu\u2019 renders all local water sources and systems visible. Thus, against the backdrop of global climate change and environmental degradation, participants within the holistic life-techniques of Indigenous knowledge include both humans and non-humans.\u201d (Excerpt from Cao Minghao &amp; Chen Jianjun&#8217;s research notes)<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":6220,"template":"","categories":[1],"exhibitions_category":[42],"class_list":["post-6217","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a4-art-museum","exhibitions_category-yishujiagean"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/6217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6217"},{"taxonomy":"exhibitions_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.a4artmuseum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions_category?post=6217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}