Peng Zuqiang, ‘Afternoon Hearsay’ (2025). Film still. Courtesy of the artist and Antenna Space.
On the occasion of his first exhibition in Scotland, Peng Zuqiang will discuss his new film installation, ‘Afternoon Hearsay’ (2025), the accompanying exhibition of the same name, and the artist’s wider practice.
‘Afternoon Hearsay’ evokes a partial history of 8.75mm film stock: a film format unique to China, manufactured between the 1960s and 1980s. The film is concerned with the nature of image-making and the ways in which cultural, historical and political narratives are shared and disseminated.
Accompanying ‘Afternoon Hearsay’ is ‘Déjà Vu’ (2023), an installation combining 16mm film projection, text, sound, and a small clay sculpture; ‘Autocorrects’ (2023), a video installation that plays with the format of a pop music video; and a new chromatic photographic print, ‘Untitled (second press #2)’ (2025). Together, works exhibited here meditate on cameraless filmmaking techniques, photochemical abstraction, and the legacies of structural filmmaking, raising the central question of Peng’s work: What is a film without a camera?
About the artist /
Peng Zuqiang (b. 1992, Changsha, China) works with film, video and installation. Recent solo presentations include Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2023); Kevin Space, Vienna (2023); Cell Project Space, London (2022); E-Flux screening room, New York (2022); and Antenna-Tenna, Shanghai (2021). Group exhibitions and screenings include UCCA Beijing (2024); Times Museum, Guangzhou (2024); 22nd Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo (2023); The Physics Room, Christchurch (2023); CCA Berlin (2023); Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK (2022) Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2022); OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Program, OCAT, Shanghai (2022); Macalline Art Center (MACA), Beijing (2022); Times Art Center, Berlin (2021); and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (2020).
Peng graduated from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2024, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 and Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014. He is a recipient of the Present Future Prize at Artissima (2022), and the Dialog Award from EMAF Osnabrück (2023–24). Residencies and fellowships include Art Explora, Paris; Skowhegan, Maine; and the Core Program, Texas. He lives and works in between Amsterdam and Paris.
Further Info
Event Details
Saturday 11 October, 12–2pm
Tickets
This event is free and we encourage you to book a ticket in advance.
Access
The event takes place in The Common Guild Library on the ground floor.
5 Florence Street has step free access and a lift.
Accessible toilets are available.
The nearest subway station is Bridge Street, a 14 minute walk away.
Due to the nature of the performance and the subjects covered, live captions will not accompany this event.
The nearest subway station is Bridge Street, a 14 minute walk away.
‘Afternoon Hearsay’ is supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture grant programme. The work was produced by Lo schermo dell’arte with Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci with the support of the VISIO Production Fund.
