DECK at Photofairs Shanghai 2025
DATE
08 to 11 MAY 2025
VENUE
Shanghai Exhibition Center
No.1000 Yan’an Middle Road, Jing’an District,
Shanghai, China
Exhibition Booth: C06
ADMISSION
Ticket admission apply.
About
Images are never static. They are reborn in different contexts, transformed by technology, memory, and meaning. From ancient paintings to digital algorithms, from photographic negatives to AI-generated landscapes, images evolve—reshaped by time, culture, and perception.
Through the works of Jonathan Liu, Marvin Tang, and MM Yu, this exhibition explores the multiple lives of images: their origins, transformations, and reimaginations. How do images change as they move between hands, screens, and minds? How do forgotten images find new significance in the digital age?
Through the works of Jonathan Liu, Marvin Tang, and MM Yu, this exhibition explores the multiple lives of images: their origins, transformations, and reimaginations. How do images change as they move between hands, screens, and minds? How do forgotten images find new significance in the digital age?
Event Details
VIP Previews
8 May, 14:00 – 20:00
9 May, 12:00 – 20:00
Public Opening
10 May, 11:00 – 20:00
11 May, 11:00 – 18:00
Browse Works
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The Death Of Every Moment (2023 - ongoing)
Jonathan Liu
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Hybrids
Marvin Tang
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Either Or (2024)
MM Yu
Featuring
Jonathan Liu
Artist
Jonathan Liu is a visual artist and educator working with photography within his practice. He is interested in the way our process of recollection deteriorates, decays and disappears over time. His work explores the evolving relationship between the Human and the Nonhuman, as well as
to dissolve and entangle the boundaries between objective photographic forms and subjective experiences.
He is the recipient of the National Arts Council Singapore Arts Scholarship in 2023 and also a founding member of NFT Asia - an artist-led non-profit digital collective, and most recently, co-curator of the “PORTALS” exhibition exploring the intersection of Art and Technology at the Battlebox.
His work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Norway, United Arab Emirates, China, Japan and Singapore. He lectures with the Design Communication, Fine Arts and Arts Management faculties at LASALLE College of the Arts. He holds a BA(Hons) in Photography from London College of Communication (University of Arts, London) as well as an MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts (Awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London).
to dissolve and entangle the boundaries between objective photographic forms and subjective experiences.
He is the recipient of the National Arts Council Singapore Arts Scholarship in 2023 and also a founding member of NFT Asia - an artist-led non-profit digital collective, and most recently, co-curator of the “PORTALS” exhibition exploring the intersection of Art and Technology at the Battlebox.
His work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, Norway, United Arab Emirates, China, Japan and Singapore. He lectures with the Design Communication, Fine Arts and Arts Management faculties at LASALLE College of the Arts. He holds a BA(Hons) in Photography from London College of Communication (University of Arts, London) as well as an MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts (Awarded by Goldsmiths, University of London).
Marvin Tang
Artist
Marvin Tang uses images as a tool of investigation.
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, Design, and Media (NTU) and his Master's in Photography from the University of the Arts London.
His research questions the linearity of historical narratives and the concept of collective identities, particularly through image production. He is drawn by the intersections of history and ecology, utilising these perspectives to explore policy-making and the evolving dynamics of social structures
Marvin received the CAPA Asia Portfolio Review Prize at the 5th Singapore International Photography Festival in 2016 and the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography in 2015. His works have been exhibited at various esteemed venues, including Alliance Française de Singapour, DECK (Singapore), Mizuma Gallery (Singapore), Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale (Greece), Noorderlicht International Photofestival (Netherlands), Odesa Photo Days (Ukraine), and the Dali International Photography Exhibition (China).
He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, Design, and Media (NTU) and his Master's in Photography from the University of the Arts London.
His research questions the linearity of historical narratives and the concept of collective identities, particularly through image production. He is drawn by the intersections of history and ecology, utilising these perspectives to explore policy-making and the evolving dynamics of social structures
Marvin received the CAPA Asia Portfolio Review Prize at the 5th Singapore International Photography Festival in 2016 and the Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Photography in 2015. His works have been exhibited at various esteemed venues, including Alliance Française de Singapour, DECK (Singapore), Mizuma Gallery (Singapore), Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale (Greece), Noorderlicht International Photofestival (Netherlands), Odesa Photo Days (Ukraine), and the Dali International Photography Exhibition (China).
MM Yu
Artist
(b.1978) Lives and works in Manila, Philippines
MM Yu has worked between photography and painting since obtaining her Fine Arts degree in 2001. Her works in both media tackle the nuances achieved between composition and color as they occupy the frame. Primarily drawn to street photography and documenting the everyday, her photographs evoke the ever-changing cultural texture and topology of urban cities as seen through its inhabitants, the city’s infrastructure and its waste product as it archives not only the economy but also the ecology of life in the myriad forms it takes in the city.
Yu is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artist Award (2009),Ateneo Art Awards, 2007, Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist (2010) and Goethe-Institute-Climate Change workshop grant (2014). She received her BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines and completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003), Common Room Bandung Residency Grant (2007) and CitéInternationale des Arts in Paris, France (2013)DECK Artist in Residency, Singapore (2023).
MM Yu has worked between photography and painting since obtaining her Fine Arts degree in 2001. Her works in both media tackle the nuances achieved between composition and color as they occupy the frame. Primarily drawn to street photography and documenting the everyday, her photographs evoke the ever-changing cultural texture and topology of urban cities as seen through its inhabitants, the city’s infrastructure and its waste product as it archives not only the economy but also the ecology of life in the myriad forms it takes in the city.
Yu is a recipient of the Cultural Center of the Philippines 13 Artist Award (2009),Ateneo Art Awards, 2007, Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalist (2010) and Goethe-Institute-Climate Change workshop grant (2014). She received her BFA in Painting from the University of the Philippines and completed residencies with Big Sky Mind, Manila (2003), Common Room Bandung Residency Grant (2007) and CitéInternationale des Arts in Paris, France (2013)DECK Artist in Residency, Singapore (2023).
