Des paysages invisibles, 2026
Han Qi  

Painting : pencil · 40 x 27 cm 15.7 x 10.6 inch · Ready to hang

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Painting : Unique artwork

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40 x 27 cm 15.7 x 10.6 inch Height x Width x Depth

Artwork dimensions including frame

51.7 x 38.8 cm 20.4 x 15.3 inch

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The work combines a private German family photograph dating from the Second World War with a pencil drawing made by the artist after the image. The black-and-white photograph below comes from a family album acquired by the artist at a second-hand market. An open field extends towards a distant line of trees beneath a heavy, cloud-filled sky, while several figures stand beside a path at the right edge of the image. Their small scale in relation to the expansive landscape gives this seemingly ordinary family photograph a quiet and elusive narrative quality.

The pencil drawing above retains the principal elements of the photograph—the field, trees, clouds, and path—while diminishing the presence of the figures. Instead of reproducing the photograph exactly, the artist reconstructs it through delicate lines, tonal variations, and shifting areas of light and shadow. The photographic instant becomes less distinct through the slow process of drawing, resembling a memory gradually fading over time.

The photograph and drawing are each surrounded by broad areas of white and aged paper. This extensive empty space makes the two small images resemble archival fragments that have been preserved, classified, and displayed, while also emphasising their distance from the family context to which they once belonged. The photograph records a moment once inhabited by unknown individuals; the drawing presents a later viewer's attempt to observe, imagine, and reconstruct that moment. The diminished visibility of the figures further evokes the disappearance of individual identity: the landscape appears to endure, while the people who once occupied it gradually recede from both the image and history.

The work therefore questions whether photography can truly preserve memory and considers how private images are reinterpreted after their names, locations, and stories have been lost. The artist's act of drawing functions both as an attempt at preservation and as an acknowledgement of preservation's limits: the visible landscape may be reconstructed, but the lived experience behind the photograph cannot be fully recovered.

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Han Qi, Des paysages invisibles

Han Qi

China  • 1989

Presentation

Born in 1989 in Shenyang, China.

Lives and works between China and France, QI Han is originally from Shenyang, a city in northern China. He was introduced to contemporary art during his studies in Dalian (China). QI Han's artistic creations are mainly painting. Being greatly influenced by the concept "the imagination of northern culture" proposed by the artists representing the Northern Art Group in the 85 'Artistic New Trend movement at the beginning of contemporary Chinese art, he expresses rationality in his works. , coldness and indifference by studying the mysterious power of the culture of North China.

In 2014, after arriving in France, he began to create video works. As he also lives and studies in the north of France, his visual memory of the environment where he grew up meets the aesthetic tradition of architecture and religious painting of the Flemish region, as well as the icy and hazy climate. North. This gives QI Han a unique artistic experience to explore the "cold aesthetic".

In 2017, QI Han participated in the AR + image sector between the École Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas-de Calais and Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Contemporary Arts. QI Han started to use multimedia in his works, in which there are some installations and performances. During this period, QI Han directed its creation towards the interdisciplinary field of art and science, especially with regard to interstellar space. Subsequently, he created the series "The spatial landscape" which includes painting, installation, video.

QI Han is also deeply influenced by the artistic conception of Chinese landscape painting proposed by the Chinese painter SHI TAO (1642-1707) of the QING dynasty. He refers a lot to Hieronymus Bosch, René Magritte, Philip K. Dick, and Stanley Kubrick. The character of QI Han's works consists of elements of science fiction, mysticism and surrealism.


Education

2005 - 2008

The Attached secondary Art School of Luxun Academy of Arts ,

2008 - 2012

Dalian Universtiy of Foreign Languages, Academy of arts, Lience

2013 - 2016

Dalian Polytechnic University , Academy of arts and designs , Master

2017

Diploma from the Superior School of Art of Nord-Pas-de Calais Dunkirk - TourcoingDNAP, with honors

2019

Higher national diploma (DNSEP) of plastic expression Ecole Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas-de Calais Dunkirk –Tourcoing site of Tourcoing, with honors

2017 - 2019

In the AR + image sector between the École Supérieure d'Art du Nord-Pas-de Calais and Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains

2020

L'Open Bach Residence, Paris

Workshop Contrepoint, Paris


Exhibitions

2020

ASIA NOW - Paris Asian Art Fair 6th, The representation of worry and the worry of representation, ZETO ART, Paris France

Salaisons SaloVIII, Paris France

La Narration on latitude 2 #, Houku Art Museum & Post- Flemish art space , Dalian , China

2019

North Temperature: border, Biechu Art Museum, Shenyang, China

Les Salaisons Salo VII, Paris France

La Narration sur latitude, 1 # Baohe Galerie & Post-Flemish art space, Dalian China

All about trees , New lcicle Cultural space , Paris France

News species # 3 Chengdu Library, Chengdu, China

Art up - the contemporary art fair, Lille grand palais, Lille, Paris

2018

Cellsfiction # 2, Galerie espace croisé, Roubaix, France

News species # 2, The experimental media, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2017

News species, The experimental media, Espace art n ° 1, Chengdu, China

2016

Breadcrumbs, solo exhibition, JunMei Gallery, Dalian, China

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