Summer as a Metaphor for Desire and Destiny

Inside the halls of Tang Contemporary Art in Beijing, Wu Yi stages Love in Midsummer, an exhibition that intertwines ancient myths, personal memories, and pop-inflected imagery. With more than fifty works, the artist explores love as a mutable force, capable of transforming the everyday into symbol and vision. The peach, the quintessential summer fruit, becomes an emblem of desire and memory: soft as skin, radiant as a promise, suspended between the wish for longevity and an erotic allusion.
Alongside this universe, Wu Yi revisits The Legend of the White Snake, a tale that has crossed centuries of tradition, reimagining it in simplified, theatrical images that echo the language of popular prints. Here love is both passion and constraint, freedom and prohibition, as in the cinematic versions that have marked generations. Finally, the series devoted to Prague transforms the city into a stage of memories and expectation, its atmosphere oscillating between dream and melancholy. Between myths and cityscapes, Wu Yi creates a pictorial journey in which summer becomes a universal metaphor for desire and destiny.