New projects by multi-media artist Wang Jianwei are exhibited in the Shanghai Gallery of Art at Three on the Bund.

The project, entitled "Dodge," borrows a concept by Argentine writer Jorges Luis Borges, who claims that the possibilities for understanding the world are always uncertain.

"Dodge" evokes new ways of perceiving the world that are neutral, between convention and imagination, familiar and abnormal. It is composed of different media including architectural fragments in the form of a toppled skyscraper, ambiguous human figures, a video installation and photography.

The video documents multiple actors and actresses traversing the different spaces of a karaoke bar, a train station and a hospital. By staging a fragmented situation, Wang destabilizes the boundaries between different genres and creates an overall visual landscape that reconfigures time and space.

Wang has been an important figure in China's contemporary art scene. Originally trained as a painter, he started to work in video, film and theatre in the mid 1990s and is reputed as an early pioneer of interdisciplinary art.

After graduating from high school in 1975, Wang was sent to the countryside for re-education. During this period, he observed the life and living conditions of the peasants. During his study at the former Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou (now the China Academy of Fine Arts) in the 1980s, he was heavily influenced by French existentialists Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. He soon questioned the adequacy of using painting to express his ideas. In 1991 he abandoned painting and started to experiment with new media. He created his first video in 1995 and in 1997 he became one of the two Chinese artists to be included in Documenta 10 held at Kasel, Germany.