“No Man is an Island” is the theme of Porsche Art Healing Exhibition, which is on view during the eighth edition of ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (12-15 November, 2020). Jointly initiated by Porsche China, Cc Foundation and ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, the Art Healing Exhibition features works by six Chinese artists.

Artist Wang Xin is commissioned to create three “Temporary Quarantine Houses” installed at three locations in the city. Each engenders a therapeutic environment to bring together viewers from all walks of life for a moment of serenity and meditation. 

Artists Liu Jianhua, Ma Haijiao, Lu Pingyuan, Gong Jian and Zheng Da take over booths D02 and D04 in the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Their porcelains, videos, sound installation, paintings, and digital media installations either focus on their self-reflections during the global pandemic, address social and environmental concerns, explore art’s agency for healing, or reconsider man’s relationship with nature and the universe. 

The exhibition can be viewed as a snapshot of the collective effort at contributing to the wellbeing of our mind, body and spirit for not only surviving together but also thriving together, because “no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” (John Donne)