Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆
Peng Zuqiang: Afternoon Histories (working title) 彭祖强：午后史（暂定名）
2025年 10月 31日 – 2026年 2月 8日
The exhibition of Peng Zuqiang (1992, Changsha, China) revolves around a newly commissioned multi-channel video installation that explores a little-known 8.75mm propaganda film from the Maoist era, unfolding through a series of investigations into mnemonics that resist being remembered, recorded, or circulated. Peng’s moving image practice is drawn to the resonance of media technologies in socialist China, blending material experiments with film’s historical and emotional dimensions.
From collective childhood memories of playing accordion to the fleeting melodies of Millennium-era Mandarin pop music, obsolete aerial films and the enigmatic site of a former Malaysian communist underground radio station in Hunan, his work weaves recollections of hearsay, folklore and ephemerality that transcend traditional historical accounts. This newly commissioned work investigates specific Maoist era 8.75mm films, which were widely screened across China's rural mountains, villages, and frontiers to spread propaganda. Through three semi-fictional narratives, the artist reimagines the transformation of such film into cinema through invention, production, and projection.
Peng Zuqiang: Afternoon Histories is organized by Sam Shiyi Qian, Curator.
彭祖强（1992年生于长沙）的个展围绕一件全新委任创作的多频影像装置展开。作品探索了社会主义中国用于宣传的8.75毫米胶片，由此考察一系列抵抗纪念、记录和传播的记忆符号。彭祖强的艺术实践与不同时期的媒体技术产生连接，他将影像媒介物质性的实验融入电影的历史与情感维度。
不论是演奏手风琴的童年集体记忆，或是千禧年风靡一时的华语流行音乐，再到废弃的航拍胶卷和难以寻迹的前马共地下电台遗址，彭祖强的影像创作将这些超越历史叙述的传闻和瞬逝的感觉编织在一起。展览委任作品所涉及的特殊8.75毫米规格胶片，曾在60至80年代的山野、农村和边境广泛用于宣传放映。艺术家通过三段半虚构的叙事，重新想象一种胶片成为电影的三个阶段：发明、生产和放映。
“彭祖强：午后史”（暂定名）由上海外滩美术馆策展人钱诗怡策划。