Ana Mendieta
in ‘Shanshui: Echoes and Signals’, M+, Hong Kong
3 February 2024 – Ongoing

‘Shanshui: Echoes and Signals’, 2024, exhibition view, M+, Hong Kong. Courtesy: M+ Hong Kong; photo: Dan Leung.
Shanshui: Echoes and Signals is a thematic exhibition of works drawn from the M+ Collections that explores the complex connections between landscape and humanity in our post-industrial and increasingly virtual world. Shanshui (‘mountain and water’) is a cultural legacy integral to Chinese philosophical thinking and poetic imagination, and motivates a millennium-old tradition of ink painting across East Asia. Although commonly translated as ‘landscape’, shanshui can take us far beyond observable reality. It manifests invisible resonances—between stillness and motion, vision and imagination, the fleeting immediacy of experience and the persistence of history and memory.