Works by Hong Hao, Liu Jianhua, and Yang Xinguang are currently presented in the group exhibition Pengci—An Accident at Longquan Wang’ou · Taoxichuan, curated by Feng Boyi, Li Yifei, and Gao Wenjian.

“This exhibition is a contemporary art exhibition using ceramics as its medium, conceived on the foundation of the tradition of Longquan celadon and made possible through the resources and platform provided by Longquan Wang’ou · Taoxichuan. The term ‘pengci’ originates from a Beijing dialect and is said to have been ‘invented’ by some impoverished bannermen in the late Qing dynasty. They would carry a ‘valuable’ porcelain object while walking through busy streets, deliberately waiting for an opportunity to allow a passing horse-drawn carriage to ‘accidentally’ bump into them. When the porcelain fell to the ground and shattered, its owner would then ‘righteously’ entangle the carriage owner and demand compensation at the price of a precious porcelain piece. Over time, this behavior came to be known as ‘pengci.’ In essence, it constitutes a form of fraud and illegal activity, a deliberately fabricated and staged so-called traffic ‘accident.’

By drawing on this anecdote and adopting a tongue-in-cheek rhetorical approach as the exhibition’s theme, the aim is to articulate how the media of the participating works possess a certain degree of specificity while also accommodating the characteristics of ceramic kiln transformations. At the same time, the exhibition playfully likens this to the mixed sounds generated through the exchanges, frictions, and collisions arising from the artistic practices of thirty artists from eleven countries and regions.”