New art exhibition opens at L-Art Gallery in Futian

The latest exhibition, “The Stardust Grand Theater,” opened on June 12 at L-Art Gallery on the second floor of the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning. Admission is free, and the exhibition will run through August 16.

A painting titled “The Stardust Grand Theater,” the namesake of the exhibition. Photos by Chang Zhipeng

The exhibition focuses on the past two years of work by artist Meng Siste, presenting his ongoing reflections on technology and time. Through painting, the artist examines the meaning and limits of technology itself, using it to organize life, shape perception, and structure the subject. He then places these ideas back into the dimensions of myth, the body, and the universe, dissolving linear time and exploring questions of existence and subjectivity.

Meng Site (1st R) introduces his art piece to the audience.

Interwoven with multiple pictorial languages and visual references, the works create a theater-like spatial structure that draws viewers into a vast and fantastical realm where real-life experience meets cosmic imagination.

Residents watch the paintings on display.

“The Stardust Grand Theater” is more than a visual narrative; it is also an artistic experiment in the philosophy of technology. It invites viewers to rethink their own place and modes of perception within complex technological systems, as both observers and the observed.