Yan Jinsong's Yin Yu (Hidden Fish) series. [Photo/Tide News]

Works by photographers Yan Jinsong and Wang Zhengduo from Taizhou in East China's Zhejiang province are on display at Eastern Daybreak, a special invitation exhibition of the 61st Venice Biennale, which opened in Italy on May 10.

The exhibition brings together more than 60 Chinese artists from around the world, whose works draw on long-evolved Eastern cultural traditions, emphasizing spatial balance, restraint, structural tension, and a sense of relational order. Some of the works have been previously noted by international media, including the Associated Press, Time Magazine, and Arts of Asia, as representing contemporary Chinese artistic practice at a global level.

Yan's Yin Yu (Hidden Fish) series explores the tension between industrial civilization and natural ecosystems. Through strong visual contrasts, the works function as an ecological metaphor, reflecting environmental pressure and the encroachment of industrial activity on natural habitats, while raising broader questions about human-nature relationships.

Wang's Hehe (Harmony) series adopts an interdisciplinary approach combining photography, painting, calligraphy, and music within a digital visual framework. Centered on the concept of harmony, the works reinterpret Eastern philosophical ideas through contemporary abstract expression, examining dualities such as movement and stillness, time and space, and unity within diversity.