Max Protetch Gallery is pleased to present the second of two North American premieres of videos by Chinese artist Gao Shiqiang. Faint With Oxygen (2008) will be on view from December 2 through December 23. Also on view will be a selection of Gao’s photographs.

Great Bridge (2007), screened previously in the gallery from November 7 through November 26, had its world premeire at the 2008 Gwangju Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor.

Gao created Faint With Oxygen as the result of an invitation to produce a work on the Tibetan plateau. The video begins with a series of close-up portraits of shepherds in high grasslands, focusing eventually on a young man, Gairi Luosong Gelai, who was forced to teach himself Chinese by listening to the radio. While the work takes a panoramic look at a particular landscape and its inhabitants, it also examines the way language can spark the cultural imagination.

Gao Shiqiang (b. 1971) works and lives in Hangzhou, China. His work has been shown in major exhibitions throughout Asia, including the Guangzhou Triennial and the Gwangju Biennale.

On view in the Project Space through December 23, Aaron Williams, All The World Is Renewed By Fire.