Just One Day

Luo Dong
JUST ONE DAY

"Just One Day" is an exhibition about encounters in the everyday. The photographs on display captures fleeting glimpses cast by artist Luo Dong's unobtrusive gaze upon daily life. These momentary glances, however, seemingly incidental at first glance, transform upon revisita-tion into enduring stares and subtle encounters. One day, just one day in passing, becomes a page of a story precisely because of the absence of stories and events. These photos, free of narrative burden or aesthetic ambition, empoy a relaxed and unpretentious perspective to guide viewers into extraordinary moments hidden within the everyday.
ARTIST: Luo Dong

Luo Dong is a young filmmaker with rich experience. Born in Shanghai, China, he developed a strong interest in photography at a young age and became an independent magazine photographer at the age of 18, shooting for different fields such as film, music, architecture, and fashion. He won the Top Ten Photographers Award conferred by China in 1999, and in the same year he began to shoot stills and posters for movies. Such as, Lan Yu, The Little Chinese Seamstress, and Song of Regret are his representative works.

After 2006, Luo Dong began to serve as a director of photography for advertisements and films. His representative works include: Shanghai Trace, the opening film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Hong Kong Quartet, and the film Victory directed by Zhang Meng. He has also collaborated with Golden Globe Award director Fernando Meirelles on NIKE advertisements and won the Best of the Year Award.

In 2022, Luo Dong directed the film May (produced by Shen Yang and supervised by Zhou Xun). The film was shortlisted for the screening unit of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival, the documentary competition unit of the 46th Moscow International Film Festival, the screening unit of the 14th Beijing International Film Festival, the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival and won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Director for Asian Newcomers. In the same year, Luo Dong and director Zhang Meng joined hands again to shoot the annual film The Comeback(produced by TBWA) for Apple. The film won the 2022 American "Golden Pencil" Best Photography, the two highest honors of the 2022 Cannes International Advertising Festival Gold Lion and Silver Lion, and the 2023 Spikes Asia Best Photography.

In 2023, Apple invited Luo Dong again to shoot the annual film Through The Five Passes. In 2024, Luo Dong collaborated with director Zhang Meng for the fourth time on the film Mars Mission, and at the same time, as a director and director of photography, he shot TV commercials for many international brands, including Nike, Hennessy, Cadillac, Hermès, Prada, Lego and Chanel.
CURATOR: Jiang Feiran

Jiang Feiran is a writer and curator who holds a PhD from the ICAST where she is now a Junior Research Fellow. Her research encompasses contemporary art criticism and curation, avant-garde theory, and cultural studies. Jiang Feiran was awarded the Jimei × Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image in 2021, was shortlisted for the 8th International Awards for Art Criticism in 2022, and The 11th Three Shadows Photography Award in 2019. Her recent curatorial projects include: "Endless Mountains: Spanning Mountains and Seas—An Exhibition of Art and The Tang Poetry Road", Osaka, 2024; "Cai Dongdong: Miss the Target", Beijing, 2023; "Unnamed River", Beijing and Shanghai, 2021-2022. Jiang was also invited to serve as guest editor for the second issue of the online art magazine UNArt and authored Science Fiction Drama in 2020. She is a regular contributor to art media ARTDBL, and her articles have appeared in The Thinker, Artforum, ArtReview China, ARTDBL, Artnet, Art Observation and China Photography.
Luo Dong, A Windy Afternoon, 2018-2023. Giclee print. Courtesy of the artist.
Luo Dong, Not Sure Which Island to Sail To, 2018-2023. Giclee print, Courtesy of the artist.
Luo Dong, Not Long After Leaving, 2018-2023. Giclee print. Courtesy of the artist.
Luo Dong, First Time Seeing Freezing Rain, 2018-2023. Giclee print. Courtesy of the artist.
Luo Dong, Parking Across from the Café, 2018-2023. Giclee print. Courtesy of the artist.