More than 40 artists are exhibiting their photographic works at the “Logic of Sensation” exhibition, a spinoff event of the Fifth Shenzhen International Photography Exhibition.

Christopher Colville is a U.S. artist working to push the boundaries of the photographic medium in both experimental and traditional forms. He received his BFA in anthropology and photography from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and his MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico. He has spent his time in Phoenix exploring the desert where he has taught at multiple institutions including as a visiting assistant professor at Arizona State University.

His “Instar” series shown at the Shenzhen exhibition depicts “miraculous and tenuous” life in the Sonoran Desert and uses feelings of fear and wonder as tools to explore the collision of the contemporary city, Phoenix, with the dark, untamed desert wilderness. Most images of the desert highlight its vast, parched landscape and its pale, dried-bone colors.

Chinese artist Celine Liu uses Photoshop to edit her images into historical photos, with herself posing next to iconic figures, such as Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Andy Warhol. In her series, “I’m Everywhere,” Liu travels through time and digitally crafts her own version of reality. Holding an MFA in photography from Tsinghua University, she explores the role of photography in the era of cultural globalization, the glorification of icons and how images are used to visually tell stories from history. Her photos won her the Discovery Award at the Jimei-Arles International Photography Season in 2016.

“Celebrities and historical figures were symbols created through media communication, so by intruding into their historical moments, blurring reality and fiction, and with the help of the internet, my images are spread along with the famous people equally. I will finally become a symbol like them,” Liu explained in an earlier interview.

Swiss artist Marianne Mueller’s works overlap between photography, video, installation and books. Her works unfold over time, often involving searching through her own photographic archive to collate images relevant to a project, and tend to respond to the site they are exhibited in, centering around the curation and positioning of form, line and image in relation to narrative. This achieves a subtle, intimate, and abstracted approach to the depiction of her own experience of life and the traces of life she finds in the world.

U.S. artist Amelia Konow’s works address human perceptions of cosmic phenomena. She has taught photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and the New England School of Photography. She currently teaches at UC Berkeley. In her ongoing series, “Auras,” she uses photography to explore the borders between science and mysticism. Influenced in part by the aesthetics of Kirlian Photography, a photographic process invented in the late 1930s that reveals visible “auras” around the objects or individuals photographed, Konow utilizes glass lenses and prisms to visualize how the aura of a landscape might appear.

Dates: Until Dec. 15

Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., closed Mondays

Venue: C2 Space, North Area, OCT-LOFT, Nanshan District (南山区华侨城创意文化园北区C2展厅)

Metro: Line 2 to Qiaocheng North Station (侨城北站), Exit B

(SD News)