The fall group exhibition “I will be your eyes” at Art+ Shanghai Gallery assembles seven accolade graduates and postgraduates of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). The winner of the CAFA graduate exhibition Shi Yunyuan focused on the reconstructing the old maps of the Beijing 15th century walls that ere demolished in 1965 due to the construction of the new Beijing 2nd Ring Road. Shi Yunyuan’s 66 Writings (2016) is based upon the artist’s extensive research of Beijing’s old city wall, a series of inner and outer fortifications established during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644) to keep foreigner at bay. To reinstate its memory, Shi collected 66 different pieces of passages from orally transcribed and written accounts by scholars, architects, government officials, journalists and business people who argued to retain or demolish the city wall. The artist eventually amassed an archive of near forgotten oral and written viewpoints, which she re-inscribed for reflection in her calligraphic series 66 Writings (2016). In 1-16/2016 Manuscripts (2016), Shi has constructed her own vision of a city wall on panels of mounted xuan paper, which cover two corners of an adjoining wall. #chinesecontemporaryart #beijing #shanghai #artexhibition