> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fangyang Presses Circulating Images Into Clay and Seals Them in Steel - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai/ - Published: 2026-10-21T05:40:49.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-21T05:40:49.000Z - Description: Explore Fangyang's Possessed at E.SCAPE art space in Shanghai, where images transferred onto clay are sealed in galvanized steel frames. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition, Digital & Screen, Sculpture & Installation, Video & Moving Image, Shanghai ## E.SCAPE Art Space Presents Possessed in Shanghai Possessed by **Fangyang** opens at **E.SCAPE art space** on Wukang Road in Shanghai and runs from October 11 to November 3, 2026, with academic support from Wang Huan and artistic direction by Yuan Yuan Jin. **Possessed** **Artist:** Fangyang **Exhibition:** Possessed **Venue:** [ E.SCAPE art space ](https://www.instagram.com/e.scape.artspace/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Shanghai, China **Dates:** October 11, 2026 – November 3, 2026 **Hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 8pm **Address:** 3 Lane 40, Wukang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai **Photography:** Fangyang **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space The wall works are made by transferring laser-printed images onto stone modeling clay and sealing the clay bricks inside frames of chemically treated galvanized steel, some with exposed rebar, two held by a steel F-clamp. The images come from film stills, comics, advertising and everyday snapshots, worn down by their circulation on the internet. A new video, Until Dawn, Dusk Envelops the Suite, runs 6 minutes 58 seconds with sound by qicheng and is projected onto a suspended structure of clay blocks and steel rebar. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: two clay and steel works with rebar hang in an attic room under a bare bulb.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-installation-01.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: hexagonal brick-tile work on a plaster wall next to a window boarded with planks.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-installation-02-1.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: hat-shaped wall work and an upright coffin-shaped work in a room with boarded windows and a hanging bulb.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-installation-03-1.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: small clamp-mounted work and a hat-shaped wall work seen through open doorways above a wooden floor.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-installation-04.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: purple-toned brick-tile panel in a stepped steel frame on a white wall beside a hanging bulb.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-installation-05.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space Below, the exhibition text explains why the artist took a word from folk belief and horror film to describe his recent way of working. ### Exhibition Text The title Possessed refers to a concept not commonly used in modern society. It is more often found in ancient conceptions of the body, folk beliefs, or horror films, where it describes a human body being taken over by something beyond the human realm. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: video projected onto a grid of suspended clay blocks in a dark attic room lit blue](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-video-installation-01-1.webp) Fangyang, Possessed; Until Dawn, Dusk Envelops the Suite, video installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: video projected onto a grid of clay blocks, showing a red oval shape on a blue patterned surface.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-video-installation-02.webp) Fangyang, Possessed; Until Dawn, Dusk Envelops the Suite, video installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. In such a situation, the living subject seems almost to lose its agency as it struggles with another force over the use of its own body. Fangyang uses this word to describe his recent way of working. What matters here is the act of one thing “entering” another. The works in this exhibition carry, to different degrees, a visual quality that is rebellious, unsettling, or even violent. This kind of imagery is often associated with underground and subcultural scenes. The artist’s interest in violence and horror also comes from his experience of growing up with horror films. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: diamond-shaped steel frame holding brick-like clay tiles with a green eye, wrapped in curved black rebar.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-work-02.webp) ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: green and grey printed clay tiles in a steel frame with curved rebar spikes on a white wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-work-01.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-work-03.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. Yet this fascination with horror is hardly an individual experience. As early as the 1930s, Hollywood had already turned horror into an industrial genre that could be repeatedly produced. Through this genre, audiences could “safely” experience danger and seek forms of stimulation that conventional ethical boundaries had never allowed. In this sense, violence and horror have become the broadest common denominator of collective emotional release Fangyang’s practice begins with the viewing and selection of a large number of stimulating images. Drawing on his own visual experience, he brings together images and objects from different times and places. The sources are diverse: film stills, comics, snapshots of everyday life, advertising images, and so on. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: detail of a hat-shaped steel frame with curved claw forms and clay tiles showing an eye and printed text.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-detail-01.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, detail view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: detail of clay tiles with eye images, rebar tendrils and a shadow cast on the wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-detail-02.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, detail view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space. They largely share the qualities of what Hito Steyerl calls “the poor image.” After countless rounds of circulation on the internet, these images are materialized here. The artist transfers these images onto clay, whose rough texture echoes that of the images themselves, and finally seals the physical body of the original images within steel plates. The brick-like forms, reminiscent of building façades, make the images appear almost like ruins of themselves. Images that had been compressed and damaged, and had lost their original function, thus find themselves in a new context. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: upright coffin-shaped steel frame with brown clay tiles and white painted marks, standing against a wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-work-04.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space In the new video work Until Dawn, Dusk Envelops the Suite, the artist tells a story of occupation in a style close to horror animation. A figure whose biological characteristics are difficult to determine repeatedly moves in and out of different spaces and bodies, eventually occupying a house modeled on the actual form of E.SCAPE art space. Through this work, the artist responds to the eventful history of the building that now houses E.SCAPE, which has passed through the hands of several owners. When the film ends, the viewer returns to the real world, carrying with them the film’s recurring movements of occupation, possession, and entering and leaving. ![Fangyang, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai: empty room with a small clamp-mounted work on a worn plaster wall and a coiled cable below a hanging bulb.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/fangyang-possessed-escape-shanghai-2026-installation-06.webp) Fangyang, Possessed, installation view, E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai, 2026\. Photo: Fangyang. Courtesy the artist and E.SCAPE art space **About the Artist** **Fangyang** Fangyang is an artist and designer who works with circulating images, which he transfers onto clay and seals in steel, and with computer-generated video. He is a co-founder of slimeengine. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/fangyang%5Fyuwan/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Academic Support** **Wang Huan** Wang Huan is a writer and curator whose website lists criticism, essays, fiction, interviews and curatorial projects. [Website](https://www.huan-wang.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wanghuan%5Funnamed/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Artistic Director** **Yuan Yuan Jin** Yuan Yuan Jin is credited as artistic director of Possessed at E.SCAPE art space. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/yuanyuanjinjin/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Sound** **qicheng** qicheng made the sound for the video Until Dawn, Dusk Envelops the Suite. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/qichenng/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About the Location** **E.SCAPE art space, Shanghai** E.SCAPE art space is an experimental space at 3 Lane 40, Wukang Road in Xuhui District, founded by the YYO Foundation, that combines exhibitions with design, fashion, music and performance. [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/e.scape.artspace/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult Contemporary** This is an exhibition feature published by Catapult Contemporary, an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. [catapult-platform.art](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/catapultcontemporary/?ref=catapult-platform.art) Want to be featured? [Submit your work →](https://www.catapult-platform.art/submit/)