Beijing Dangdai Art Fair 2026 will take place from May 21 to 24 at Hall 11 of the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, with May 21 to 22 as VIP Preview Days and May 23 to 24 as Public Days. Under the theme “LAND TRACE,” this year’s edition reawakens local experience and embodied perception through the lens of geography and historical geography across multiple contexts, further delineating the detailed landscape of contemporary art amid a moment of value reshaping.

We will be releasing a series of posters centered on works featured at the Fair. These works not only offer possible interpretations of and responses to “LAND TRACE,” but also serve as preview highlights of key artworks and participating institutions. The poster shared in this edition features a mixed-media work on canvas from Li Jikai’s Floating in the Dust series, presented by Fine Arts Literature Art Center.

About the Artwork

Li Jikai
Floating in the Dust No.4
Mixed Media on Canvas
2025
200 × 147 cm
©Courtesy of the artist and Fine Arts Literature Art Center

In Floating in Dust No.4, the hazy tones of pinkish purple unfold like a dreamlike mist, softening the contours and symbols of the ceramic fragments as though they were wrapped in a gentle halo of light and time. The expansive and far-reaching ground created by Li Jikai is densely layered with black and white dots, evoking the textures of either a star-filled sky or a shimmering lake surface. Scattered across this boundless field, the fragments become vivid and independent traces of existence suspended within an infinite universe.

About the Artist

Portrait of Artist
©Courtesy of the artist and Fine Arts Literature Art Center

Li Jikai, Chinese, b.1975, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1999. In 2020, he graduated from the Chinese National Academy of Arts with a doctorate degree in fine arts. He is now teaching at Hubei Institute of Fine Arts.