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REFLEXION is pleased to present “Life on Mars ,” a solo exhibition by artist CHENG Yuzheng, opening on May 16, 2026. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo show at REFLEXION and also his debut solo exhibition in Beijing.
“Fin de siècle” was a common phrase in the years leading up to 2000, as if time itself would come to a reckoning with the world at that moment. From there on, along the arrow of time, everything in sight would belong to the future.
The Y2K bug would be the first problem carried over from the past into the future; Microsoft was imagined as an empire spanning the surface of the earth. Pessimists believed that environment, resources, and unending wars would converge into a final, summarizing moment, that the world would collapse in accordance with the prophecies of Nostradamus. Yet an optimist like Stanley Kubrick had already envisioned, with precision, a year later—in 2001—looking back at Earth from outer space.
From the cloud, looking down.
Seen from that height,…
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REFLEXION is pleased to present “Life on Mars ,” a solo exhibition by artist CHENG Yuzheng, opening on May 16, 2026. This exhibition marks the artist’s first solo show at REFLEXION and also his debut solo exhibition in Beijing.
“Fin de siècle” was a common phrase in the years leading up to 2000, as if time itself would come to a reckoning with the world at that moment. From there on, along the arrow of time, everything in sight would belong to the future.
The Y2K bug would be the first problem carried over from the past into the future; Microsoft was imagined as an empire spanning the surface of the earth. Pessimists believed that environment, resources, and unending wars would converge into a final, summarizing moment, that the world would collapse in accordance with the prophecies of Nostradamus. Yet an optimist like Stanley Kubrick had already envisioned, with precision, a year later—in 2001—looking back at Earth from outer space.
From the cloud, looking down.
Seen from that height,…
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