Screening and Reading | The Density of an Hour by Jiajia Zhang and Aurelia Guo

Thu Apr 30 2026, 7:00pm

iPhone photograph taken by Jiajia Zhang during the shooting of Domestic News in Shanghai, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

On the occasion of Jiajia Zhang's solo exhibition, Domestic News, please join us for a screening of the artist's videos alongside a reading by Aurelia Guo, who collaborated with Zhang on the script for her newly commissioned film work. 

Together, Zhang and Guo will respond to and elaborate the main themes explored in the exhibition, such as urbanism, infrastructure, spectacle, and the quotidian. They will be joined in a brief discussion, moderated by SI Chief Curator Alison Coplan, which will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience. 

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Jiajia Zhang (b. 1981 Hefei, China) lives and works in Zurich, CH. With video, sculpture, and installation, Zhang creates a language of contemporary images that playfully transverse the permeable boundaries that new media creates, challenging our entrenched definitions and notions of private and public. She studied architecture at ETH, Zürich, photography at the International Center of Photography, New York, and completed her Master of Fine Arts at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in 2020. Her work has been part of numerous exhibitions, including at CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Damien & The Love Guru, Brussels; Fluentum, Berlin; Swiss Art Awards, Basel; FriArt, Fribourg; Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard, Paris; Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen; and Istituto Svizzero, Milan.

Aurelia Guo is a writer and researcher based in London, where she is a Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of World of Interiors (Divided, 2022).