Beijing Dangdai Art Fair 2026 will take place from May 21 to 24 at Hall 11 of the National Agricultural Exhibition Center, with May 21–22 as VIP Preview Days and May 23–24 as Public Days. Under the theme “LAND TRACE,” this year’s edition re-examines cultural differences and uneven experiences from the perspectives of geo-culture and historical geography across multiple contexts, further delineating the detailed landscape of contemporary art at 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 work from ShanghART Gallery — a signature piece by artist Liang Shaoji, who uses the life process of silkworms as his medium and pursues the inner beauty of translucent silk traces at the limits of material.

About the Artwork

Liang Shaoji
Stars All Over the Sky
Silk, mirror-acrylic panel
2020
122 × 244 cm
©Courtesy of ShanghART Gallery

When the lights shine on the mirror wrapped with silks, a kind of magical effect shows up immediately. With the change of view angles, lights keep on changing, flowing and expanding. When a silkworm spins, its head moves in the form of 8, like a play with light.

About the Artist

Portrait of Artist
©Courtesy of Lin Bingliang

Liang Shaoji was born in Shanghai in 1945. From 1986 to 1989, Liang Shaoji studied soft sculpture from Maryn Varbanov at China Academy of Art who was one of the world’s leading tapestries. In the late 1980s, Liang started experimenting with silkworms. For more than thirty years, he has been indulged in the interdisciplinary creation in terms of art and biology, installation and sculpture, new media and textile. His Nature Series sees the life process of silkworms as creation medium, the interaction in natural world as his artistic language, time and life as the essential idea. His works are fulfilled with a sense of meditation, philosophy and poetry while illustrating the inherent beauty of silk.