Wandering Till the Wind Whispers My Land

Zhou Gongmo was born in 1993 in Yueyang, China. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2015, he completed his Master’s degree at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2023, where he was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Visual Arts by the City of Nantes. He is currently based at Bonus Studio in Nantes, France. In addition to exhibiting in France, he has also shown his work in Belgium, the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.

Li Gang was born in Yunnan, China in 1986 and currently lives and works in Beijing, China.

Li Gang views artistic creation as the construction of an emotional repository and spiritual vessel, seeking to find mutual references between the language of everyday objects and the language of art in order to analyze and interpret the original information and self-expression of objects as they develop, and to transform them into special objects that can preserve emotions and spirits. Through his intuitive approach to materials, Li Gang emphasizes the intrinsic spiritual essence and tension inherent in the materiality of objects, establishing a balance between the form and content of his works. This allows him to explore the boundaries between art and perception. Li Gang’s artistic practice can be summarized as a discussion of the sensory processes generated by art within human emotional existence, guided by the concept of “material spirit.”

His works have been exhibited at the Fiminco Art Foundation in France, the M+ Museum of Contemporary Art in Hong Kong, the Palazzo Merulana Art Museum in Rome, the PSA Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, the UCCA Lab at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, the 2023 Chengdu Biennale, the Cartier Art Foundation in Paris, the Confluence Museum in Lyon, France, the Louis Vuitton Foundation Museum in Paris, the Palais de Tokyo Museum in Paris, the chi K11 Art Museum in Hong Kong, the 6th Moscow Biennale, the 3rd Ural Contemporary Art Industry Biennale, the Steyr Autumn Art Festival, the Beijing Shanzhongtian Art Center, the Shanghai Yue-Yi Art Museum, the Chengdu Zhi Art Museum, the Kunming Contemporary Art Museum, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, and the Liechtenstein Cultural Center, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include: “Forgetfulness” at Shiwai Space, Wuhan, China (2024); ” Open Sea“ at Ti Gan Gallery, Beijing, China (2023); ”Object Perception“ at Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy (2022); and ”Nude Color” at Meller Gallery Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (2020), among others.

Dr. Chang Gao. Berlin-based multimedia artist, postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art (London) and serves as a board member and communication director of the feminist collective art&dialogue (Berlin). Gao is a public art researcher, also the founder and director of the Social Innovation Research Lab at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (China). Her artistic and theoretical work explores AI, affect, desire, sexuality, and embodiment—investigating how affective computing and sensory systems reshape perception, agency, and social structures. Working across robotics, augmented reality, bioelectric systems, sculpture, real-time AI installations, film, and immersive, time-based media, Gao integrates eroticism and supernormal stimuli into her practice to challenge the boundaries of human and non-human interaction. Harnessing desire and bodily affect as subversive forces, her work confronts Chinese censorship and reveals the biases embedded in anthropocentric AI systems. Speaking from undefined, often repressed positions, Gao develops affect-driven creative languages that destabilize cultural hegemony and technopolitical authority. Her research and multimedia works have been exhibited internationally in Berlin, London, Seoul, Utrecht, Graz, Tokyo, Helsinki, and across China.

Fan Bangyu, born in Xi’ an and currently based in London, graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2024. They are a cross-disciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, sculpture, image, sound, and writing.
Through a dialogic approach, their work explores multifaceted propositions surrounding time, language, and perception, while also investigating how to draft a nonlinear narrative novel through visual, auditory, and olfactory means. Whether working with directly appropriated readymades, kiln-fired or deconstructed and reassembled objects, or textual fragments, their pieces embody complexity and metaphor. These materials appear to be gathered from the unnoticed corners of contemporary society, forming a narrative charged with the power of the present moment. For Fan, they function as tangible “evidence” of time and space-sometimes posing poetic questions, and at other times taking the form of stark allegories.

Their fascination with readymades and sculptural forms creates a connection that traverses time and space, as the materials used bring forth a sense of precision in feeling. Through re-contextualisation, their work develops new narratives hidden within elements such as love, desire, obsession, symmetry, and ritual-becoming fragmentary gazes into memory and imagination.

They are drawn to events deemed as “history,” particularly in how these events rupture and infiltrate the present-resonating like aftershocks between the antennas of modern industry and the permanently paused hard drives of forgotten narratives. Fan seeks to explore the topography of sound and its relationship to space and time, approaching it as a vessel for sonic experience, auditory illusion, and memory.

Their sound practice aims to construct a space where chaos and noise unfold in layered forms-generating tension within the web of sonic experimentation. They strive to disrupt the balance of familiar tonal landscapes, inviting listeners to question inherited notions of harmony and melody.
Their work has been exhibited in cities including London, Seoul, Beijing, and Shanghai. Recent projects include a dual exhibition in London, as well as presentations and performances at Cafe OTO, Set, Barbican Arts Group Trust, KOPPEL Collective, and the London Design Festival. Upcoming projects include several group exhibitions in London, a solo presentation in Shanghai (2026), and other site-specific initiatives.

Li Yilei is a Chinese-born, London-based artist and composer whose practice explores tacitness and the transience of existence. With a background in fine art and sound art, they investigate alternative modes of listening—from the unheard, the silent, and the untrained voice to the vestibules of sensory perception—exploring how silence, absence, and non-verbal presence might carry meaning beyond the audible.

Working fluidly across sound, performance, text, and experimental scores, Li’s works consistently revolve around fostering resonance—emotional, sonic, and metaphysical. Their practice is rooted in the belief that all artistic gestures, regardless of medium, are vessels for transmitting subtle frequencies of attunement between beings and environments. Often staging moments of ambient stillness laced with spectral fluctuations or gentle undulations, their work includes tapes, theremin, traditional Chinese instruments, field recordings, and self-built sound devices to evoke an embodied sense of presence and resonance.
They are also drawn to the poetic charge of the impermanence of materiality and its boundaries — incorporating objects encountered by chance or intuition, such as natural elements, handmade artefacts, performative remnants, sites and spaces — each a momentary anchor in a world of shifting thresholds.

Since 2017, alongside releasing music records, Li’s work has spanned performance, installation, and composition for film, theatre, and dance. Their work has been performed and presented internationally at Barbican Centre (UK), King’s Place (UK), Cafe Oto (UK), Nottingham Contemporary(UK), TATE Britain(UK), V&A East Storehouse(UK) ESEA Contemporary（UK); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes(FR), UCCA Contemporary (CN), Tai Kwun Contemporary (HK), Lincoln Center (US); MAO Torino (IT) and more.

 

 

Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop is an exhibition and residency space in London and unique in its approach to bringing artists and their practices to the public. They support a diverse range of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists by providing them with space and time to develop their practice, network within our growing community, be mentored by team members and crucially be introduced to their expansive network of collectors, art educators, professionals and visitors.

Through their residency programmes and exhibitions, they give artists, curators and theorists a platform to present work and share ideas as well as creating an environment for freethinking and exchange.

They have now organised more than 40 exhibitions with over 120 artists and curators, with 10 exhibitions and 25 artists in residence a year, drawing in international audiences and participants, as well as being a local landmark in the community of Kensington and Chelsea and its surrounds.

Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop was founded in 2015 by artist Stacie McCormick in a former builder’s merchant.