3 July – 31 July 2026
Atrium Žižkov, Čajkovského 12/12a, Prague 3
Opening hours: 3:00–7:00 p.m.
Opening reception: 2 July 2026, from 6:00 p.m.
Opening Programme
6:15 p.m. – Musical performance
6:45 p.m. – Artist talk
6:55 p.m. – Guided tour
Jianquan Li, a student in the English-language Visual Arts programme at the Studio of Fine Arts IV, will present his diploma project Echo of Being at Atrium Žižkov Gallery. The exhibition features a hand-bound photobook and a projection onto a translucent chiffon screen accompanied by music. It explores intimacy, memory, distance, and absence, and transforms emotional traces into a visual, spatial, and sonic experience.
The project can be understood as a visual poem, where photographs, music, fabric, light, and silence come together to form a fragile emotional landscape.
At the centre of the project is a photobook made with traditional Chinese binding. It has two covers and two reading directions, creating two interconnected visual narratives. Rather than following a linear story, the book invites the viewer to move slowly through images in which the body, landscape, domestic space, and light become carriers of memory.
The installation expands the photobook into space. Photographs are projected onto translucent chiffon fabric, where the images appear, disappear, overlap with shadows, and are gently affected by the movement of air. The accompanying music extends the atmosphere of the photobook into the exhibition space.
Jianquan Li is a Chinese artist based in Prague. He works mainly with photography, photobooks, and woodblock printing. His practice moves between memory, intimacy, and questions of identity and representation. He recently completed his MA studies in the Studio of Fine Arts IV (Photography) at UMPRUM.
