Scripts on the fly III - Group Exhibition
Scripts on the fly III - Group Exhibition
Duration: August 13 – September 24, 2026
Artist: Renhuo Cao, Renyuan Ding, Baoyi Fu, Kaixuan Lin, Shaoya Xie, Weibo Xu, and Yang Yang
Gallery: Canton Gallery
Venue: 2nd Floor, Suyab Courtyard No. 348 Yingbin Road,Panyu District Guangzhou
Prologue
Scripts on the fly III takes its title from a working practice developed within Hong Kong film studios, where limited time, space, and resources require decisions to be made on site and creation to unfold in real time. Rather than treating uncertainty as a limitation, this mode of working embraces adjustment, contingency, and responsiveness as integral conditions of making.
The exhibition extends this logic into contemporary artistic practice. Bringing together Renhuo Cao, Renyuan Ding, Baoyi Fu, Kaixuan Lin, Shaoya Xie, Weibo Xu, and Yang Yang, the exhibition does not attempt to establish a single overarching theme. Instead, it considers how artists respond to instability, interruption, displacement, material constraints, and the unforeseen conditions embedded within everyday life.
Across painting, mixed media, installation, image-making, and material experimentation, the artists approach uncertainty through distinct visual and conceptual strategies. Their practices emerge from different lived experiences—from migration and relocation to changing social structures, environmental conditions, creative limitations, and the friction between personal experience and broader cultural narratives.
Flashlight by Renhuo Cao, 2026
Renhuo Cao 草人火, who studied and lived in Wuhan before relocating to Guangzhou, develops his practice through close observation and reflection on everyday experience. His work gradually forms a visual system in which perception, lived reality, and personal response intersect.
Wolf Singer by Renyuan Ding, 2026
Renyuan Ding 丁人远 works across a range of artistic approaches informed by his background in design and fine art. His practice reflects an ongoing engagement with visual structure, materiality, and the relationship between constructed images and lived environments.
That Many Dalmatian is a Demon Dog by Baoyi Fu, 2026
Baoyi Fu 傅抱一 employs multiple media to deconstruct contemporary perceptions through humor, absurdity, and irony. Drawing from traditional culture, folklore, martial arts, internet subcultures, and rewritten narratives of classical strange tales, his work examines the transformation of cultural symbols within contemporary Chinese society and the tensions between collective and individual identity.
I Ignore Her by Kaixuan Lin, 2024
Kaixuan Lin 林凯旋 approaches painting through the appropriation and transformation of historical imagery. By fragmenting, decontextualizing, and reshaping source images, she shifts narratives away from their original historical contexts toward more open and contemporary readings. Her practice engages questions of embodiment, perception, gender, and the possibilities of representing female subjectivity.
Our Helplessness Soars Toward The Sky by Shaoya Xie, 2026
Shaoya Xie 谢少亚 works through a highly physical painting language defined by sharp, fragmented lines and dynamic compositions. His practice examines the body as a site of tension, tracing the instability between individual experience and broader social conditions.
Grace in Descent by Weibo Xu, 2026
Weibo Xu 许伟波 draws from the language of Eastern painting while confronting contemporary psychological and existential conditions. Through the juxtaposition of painting, micro-cement, gold leaf, silver leaf, and other heterogeneous materials, he explores states of confinement, interruption, and the possibility of freedom within systems of constraint.
Small Town by Yang Yang, 2025
Yang Yang 杨洋 examines the relationship between society, everyday life, labor, ecology, and individual experience. Moving across painting, moving image, craft materials, and process-based practices, his work foregrounds the act of making itself as a space for observation, accumulation, and reflection.
What emerges across Scripts on the fly III is not a unified aesthetic, but a provisional constellation of different approaches to uncertainty. The exhibition itself operates through a similar process: artists enter with distinct practices and unfinished questions, and through encounters, adjustments, and divergences, a temporary collective structure takes shape.
Like a film set where the final scene is shaped through constant revision, the exhibition does not present a predetermined resolution. Instead, it preserves the traces of negotiation—the shifts, interruptions, responses, and transformations through which artistic practice takes form.
Scripts on the fly III ultimately asks how artists continue to create within realities that cannot be fully controlled, and how uncertainty, rather than being resolved, can become a productive condition for artistic thought and making.
ABOUT CANTON GALLERY
Canton Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in Guangzhou, dedicated to the presentation and development of contemporary artistic practices. Through exhibitions, research, and long-term collaboration with artists, the gallery explores diverse approaches to contemporary art while fostering dialogue between artistic practice and broader cultural contexts.