Fang Lu and Arie Kishon Blur Cultural Cosmologies

At Beijing’s SPURS Gallery, a new film by Fang Lu and Arie Kishon in their exhibition, Somewhere in the center, I created you, explores the crossovers between Chinese and Jewish cultures.

Upon entering Fang Lu and Arie Kishon’s exhibition, the viewer finds themselves in a cinema room, styled like a Chinese garden, in which the artists’ new film Shechina (2025) screens. Encircling the tiered wooden seating is a curved bamboo fence, contrasting against the traditional, uniform setting for modern cinema. The rest of the show builds on this meditative atmosphere in works that span a range of media, including abstract ink paintings reminiscent of the patterned drawing method Zentangle paired with Diamond Wave Chair (2025), a wooden sculpture that can be arranged in various configurations.