Visited the Shanghai Himalayas Museum (which, as it turns out, has nothing to do with the Himalayas.)
I found the building itself quite Gaudiesque. 
If not downright Gigeresque.
There was a multifaceted exhibit entitles “Humanistic Nature and Society: An Insight into the Future.”
I was struck by these interleaved English/French dictionaries. 
There was also an eerie piece that looked like a summer bbq suddenly overtaken by freezing cold. 
An artist named Yang Yongliang had a whole collection shaping images of overbuilding and consumption into shanshui landscapes.
The same artist had a mesmerizing wall-sized animated piece called “The Day of Perpetual Night” with a slightly ominous, slightly unnerving Brian Eno-like score.
I can’t tell you how long I stood and stared at this.
The lights of the buildings on the hillsides echoing the the lights of the stars. Animated boulevards and pedestrian foot traffic. Waterfalls. Ferris wheels.
Previous blogs on shanshui can be found here, here, and here.
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