Overview
Established in Shanghai in 2004 by Song Tao and Ji Weiyu, Birdhead work collaboratively across photography, collage, installation, and publishing, constructing densely layered portraits of contemporary urban life. Drawing from thousands of images captured in their daily surroundings, the duo reconfigure fragments of the photographic image into immersive visual compositions that blur documentation and abstraction, memory and invention.
This selection of recent collages continues Birdhead's longstanding exploration of the image as both archive and material. Incorporating cut and reassembled photographs, printed matter, handwritten markings, nails, and paper surfaces, the works combine colour and monochrome visuals alongside architectural details, street scenes, gestures, reflections, and fleeting encounters into rhythmic compositions that balance figuration with abstraction.
This exhibition follows Flowers Gallery's Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 presentation of Birdhead World - Clorionline City, a large-scale installation composed of 124 recontextualised photographs taken over the last decade in Hong Kong. Expanding on the pictorial language of that work, these more intimate collages offer concentrated studies of Birdhead's distinctive approach to image-making, where photographic fragments are transformed into composite, fictionalised narratives, individually and as a collective statement.
