New York - Chambers Fine Art

songs percolate in MIDI. At unpredictable intervals, like a glitch or dream, Cultural
Revolution–era footage commemorating the event flashes through to a recitation of
Mao’s “Long March” ode.
The levitating walls and weedy islets, Lego-contoured figures, and snow-dots and raindashes
(punctuation as weather) remind us of the loveliness of low-tech. Yet in contrast
to Cory Arcangel’s Nintendo modding, Feng’s work inhabits this contemporary populist
medium to revisit his country’s older, bruised ideals of collectivity. When Super Mario
himself makes a cameo, cheerily shuffling about the Great Wall, we might recognize this
plumber to be our soldier’s proletarian friend.
— Chinnie Ding