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The Arts Intel Report

Peng Wei: Old Tales Retold

Sept 7, 2019 – May 25, 2020
D06, 798 Art District, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road Chaoyang Dst. Beijing, China

Peng Wei is telling us stories—about space. In her exquisite work, architectural details, mountains, and trees are rendered with painstaking accuracy on rice paper or silk. And then there are the figures, flicked in with just a couple strokes, unidentifiable. Is Peng Wei’s narrative about these people? Or is it about the places through which they move, and eventually leave behind? —E.C.