HUANG Hankang, The Sky Remains as the Bird Departs

Viola Canova, ARTE.it for Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai, 19 June 2026
What happens when imperial imagery, Shanghai skyscrapers, artificial orchids, and ancient historical relics collide within the same space? In Huang Hankang’s new exhibition in Shanghai, reality appears as a constantly shifting system in which cultures, memories, and symbols are endlessly translated and reassembled. The Sky Remains as the Bird Departs takes Shanghai as its starting point, yet the city becomes above all a mental landscape: a vast mechanism capable of absorbing stories from different eras and geographies.