We live surrounded by a constant stream of images that we scroll through without truly seeing. Li Chenchi invites us to do exactly the opposite. With Man With Good Taste, now on view at Fotografiska Shanghai, the Chinese artist transforms the exhibition into an exercise in attention, where every work asks for time, silence, and a more conscious way of looking. Educated at the Beijing Film Academy and the Pratt Institute in New York, Li Chenchi works at the intersection of painting, photography, and printmaking. Layering, collage, and superimposition become tools for creating images that do not tell straightforward stories, but instead open spaces for reflection suspended between personal memory and collective history, the everyday and the transcendent. At the heart of his practice is the idea of "in-betweenness" - a state where things resist clear definition. It is within this space of ambiguity that the artist discovers the hidden poetry of contemporary life. In an age dominated by speed and visual overload, Li responds with the opposite gesture: he slows down the creative process and invites viewers to slow down with him. Man With Good Taste is not an exhibition to consume quickly, but an experience that restores to images their rarest power - the ability to make us truly see.
