BANK is pleased to announce that artists Shi Zheng and Wendi Yan will participate in the Venice edition of CYFEST 17, with their works featured in the video program. As one of the longest‑running international media art festivals, CYFEST 17 began in Thessaloniki, Greece; Venice is its second stop, opening on May 8, 2026.
The festival’s theme is Natura Naturans, which understands nature as a generative force—process over product. On May 9, the film program What’s in a Story?, curated by internationally renowned curator Barbara London, will take place at Auditorium S. Margherita – Emanuele Severino, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.
Shi Zheng presents his video work Tearing in Time #11 (2026). Using melting ice as a medium, the work embeds machine‑generated climate imagery within a looping screen time, pointing to a post‑natural condition where the virtual and the real increasingly erode each other.
Wendi Yan’s video work Visions of Phosphine Earth (2025), produced in collaboration with a team of MIT astrophysicists, will also be screened. The film takes viewers on an epistemological journey from macro‑landscapes to microscopic imaging, set on a speculative planet in the sulfuric clouds of Venus, and questions the boundaries of life itself.
