From another angle

Conceptual artist Zhu Jia has taken his solo exhibition to Singapore for the first time, featuring his most recent project The Face of Facebook. Provided to China Daily

Zhu Jia takes a noticeable pause before answering every question - apparently his brain works faster than everything else.

At ShanghART Gallery in Singapore's Gillman Barracks art district, the Chinese conceptual artist presents his first-ever solo exhibition in Singapore, which also marks his debut into the whole of the Southeast Asian region, wowing the audience with his vanguard works and unique thinking.

Art captures Singapore

As an event running in parallel with the ongoing Singapore Biennale 2013,Zhu's exhibition has been picked by Blouin Artinfo - an international art website - as the first of the top 10 satellite shows during the biennale.

The exhibition features Zhu's most recent project The Face of Facebook, and some earlier representative video and photographic works, providing an engaging and in-depth retrospective of the artist's works over the past 30 years.

The newest work is made up of more than 60 paintings in various styles and sizes, occupying three joined walls. The foreword indicates that each piece comes from a different creator. However, they all depict the same subject - Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, in profile.

Zhu says the original version of the image is a photograph from a September 2010 issue of New Yorker magazine. The photo was used to illustrate an article headlined "The Face of Facebook", a story about the global networking website's founder.