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My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms.
—Ovid, Metamorphoses

David Zwirner is pleased to present work by the American photographer James Welling, on view across two floors of the gallery’s Hong Kong location. The exhibition will mark the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Greater China and will provide an overview of Welling’s forty-year career in photography, with key series from the 1980s to the present that highlight his ongoing exploration of abstraction, figuration, color, and process.

Welling’s first major body of work, Aluminum Foil (1980–1981), is made …