'SHORT-CIRCUITS'

Chen Zhen - Jardin-Lavoir 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Jardin-Lavoir 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Jue Chang, Dancing Body – Drumming Mind (The Last Song) 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. PINAULT COLLECTION. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Jue Chang, Dancing Body – Drumming Mind (The Last Song) 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. PINAULT COLLECTION. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Jue Chang, Dancing Body – Drumming Mind (The Last Song) 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. PINAULT COLLECTION. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Jue Chang, Dancing Body – Drumming Mind (The Last Song) 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. PINAULT COLLECTION. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Daily Incantations 1996. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Private collection, Courtesy de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Le Produit naturel / Le Produit artificiel 1991 (detail). Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - La Voie du sommeil – Sleeping Tao 1992. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. PINAULT COLLECTION. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Lumière Innocente 1999. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Private collection, Paris. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Nightly Imprecations 1999. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Private collection, Courtesy Blondeau & Cie, Geneva. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Le Rite suspendu / mouillé 1991. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Le bureau de change 1996-2004. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Prayer Wheel – 'Money Makes the Mare Go' (Chinese Slang) 1997 (detail). Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. PINAULT COLLECTION. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Obsession de longévité 1995. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Six Roots Enfance / Garçon - Childhood / Boy 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - The Voice of Migrators 1995. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. PINAULT COLLECTION. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Purification Room 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Purification Room 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Black Broom 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / AGIVERONA Collection. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Crystal Landscape of Inner Body (Serpent) 2000. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Le Chemin / Le Radeau de l’écriture 1991. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, and GALLERIA CONTINUA. © ADAGP, Paris

Chen Zhen - Eruption Future 1992. Installation view: 'Short-circuits' Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2020. Private collection, Paris. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano. © ADAGP, Paris