Cai Dongdong: Rewriting Memory Through Photography

For Cai Dongdong, photography is never just an image. Born in 1978 and trained at the Beijing Film Academy, the Chinese artist cuts, folds, reassembles, and combines vintage photographs and negatives with mirrors, lenses, and other materials. The result is a body of work that moves between photography, sculpture, and installation, questioning how images shape collective memory and construct history. His new exhibition in Beijing offers an opportunity to discover one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Chinese photography.