2025/05 - 2025/10 Solo Exhibition: Groundless Flower

Solo Exhibition: Groundless Flower

‘Annealing’ program, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China

Curated by Aimee Lin, Cathye Yang

Art Director: Lise Li

2025 / 05 - 2025 / 10

On May 18, 2025, the Shanghai Museum of Glass opened this year’s Annealing Program exhibition: Frank WANG Yefeng: Groundless Flower.

Comprising video, glass and stainless steel sculptures, and paintings, the exhibition explores an individual’s self-realization and examination within unsettling spatiotemporal dimensions.

“When a distant, minute past is projected onto the flat vastness of the present; when a flying drone becomes an equally unreliable extension of human perception… Groundless Flower tells the tale of an insignificant individual seeking to affirm, even rewrite, their very existence within the deepening time and unsettling space.

The story unfolds in the no-man’s land at the junction of Gansu and Qinghai provinces in China. Artist Frank WANG Yefeng is lost. The landscape, so rationally deemed static before, now transforms into a boundless, shifting expanse. Walking through it, or even witnessing such a gesture of walking, can induce vertigo.

To geologists who observe the world through the lens of deep time and with enough patience, everything eventually flows—even hard rocks and entire continents. But for Frank WANG Yefeng who is equipped with nothing but his body and his artist’s technique, it is the dizziness of disorientation that shatters all boundaries between things and their meanings. At this moment, a personal mythos begins to unfold.”

— Aimee Lin

Installation View, Frank WANG Yefeng: Groundless Flower, 2025, Shanghai Museum of Glass.

Photo by Zhang Hong

Learn more About the ‘Annealing’ Program

It is precisely this spirit of exploration and endless possibility that inspired the Shanghai Museum of Glass to name its cross-disciplinary contemporary art program “Annealing.” Since 2015, the museum has invited contemporary artists from around the world to engage with glass from their own unique perspectives, continually pushing the boundaries of this highly versatile medium. As a pioneering platform for contemporary art, “Annealing” encourages imagination and creative freedom, emphasizing experimentation and inquiry. It opens new dimensions of thought and presents audiences and professionals alike with groundbreaking works—truly sharing the limitless potential of glass.