The exhibition is the result of listening and absorbing elements of Chinese culture through the eyes of an artist from its exact antipodes: Argentina.

Julián Pesce (于安) moves between two actions rooted in primitive writing and drawing: engraving (carving materials to leave a mark) and absorbing ink with tools of different loads (brushes, sticks, and brooms).

The artist focuses on two elements that captured his attention in hyper-modern Shanghai. One is the Bamboo Broom used by the street sweepers who keep the city immaculate: a humble object that nods to tradition and ancestral times —the ancient Chinese culture that persists in an urban landscape of permanent renewal. Julián uses this tool to create his paintings, while an installation and a series of photographs pay a small tribute to the city's street sweepers.

The second element is a set of wooden sticks used in his paintings. The object was given to him by an artist who was leaving the art residency where they had met —and where this entire body of work was created— the Swatch Art Peace Hotel. Wooden sticks carry a particular meaning in Chinese culture as they are used daily as chopsticks, and also connect to an ancestral material tradition. This element gave rise to a series of graphic paintings based on the repetition of movements. Given his background as a printmaker and percussionist, this hybridisation translates rhythm into image.

Finally, the series "The Soul of Dust" is a collaboration with an Argentine scientist who provided a series of images of electronic chips seen through a microscope. Julián then uses these images as a background upon which he layers Chinese flowers that he photographed throughout his stay. This series of digital prints, produced in artistic quality as unique 1/1 pieces, represents the Taoist concept that every element, no matter how small, is a representation of the universe and possesses its own spirit.