The Great Camouflage: Renée Green in Shanghai

Artist and Professor Renée Green’s work is featured in The Great Camouflage, an exhibition taking place in Shanghai’s Rockbund Museum of Art (RAM).

The exhibition “brings together sixteen contemporary artists and groups working across film, video, painting, and textiles, alongside archival and research-based practices, to explore the material and aesthetic circulations of transnational Black radical thought and the limits of revolutionary politics. Drawing on Suzanne Césaire’s call to sustain an ‘army of negations,’ The Great Camouflage situates contemporary artistic practice within the afterlives of revolutionary movements.”

Green’s work is represented by her Space Poems What Time Is IT? (GLB), (2023), and 现在几点了? (GLB) (2025), referencing Detroit’s activist and scholar Grace Lee Boggs.

In addition, Green’s film installation Partially Buried Continued (1997), featuring her 1997 films Partially Buried Continued and Korea Slides, is also showcased at RAM. A reflection on the photographic medium via a re-examination of images taken during the Korean War by Green’s father, which she viewed as a child, photographs taken in Korea in Gwangju on May 18, 1980 to document the Gwangju Uprising massacre, and photographs taken by the artist in Kwangju and Seoul in 1997, Partially Buried Continued highlights the complexities of how we find ourselves entangled in relationships to countries and nationalities, to locations and to time, and to ensuing identifications.

The Great Camouflage emerges from X Zhu-Nowell, RAM’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, and was developed in close intellectual and curatorial dialogue with artist and writer Kandis Williams, founder of Cassandra Press. Together, they frame the exhibition as a space of oscillation—recognizing how revolutionary stages have been disrupted, fragmented, and reconfigured by imperialism.

Other artists in the exhibition are Boz Deseo Garden, Bhenji Ra, Hao Jingban, Hao Liang, Onyeka Igwe, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Eric N. Mack, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Pope.L, Cauleen Smith, Christine Tien Wang, Wang Tuo, Charlotte Zhang, Cassandra Press, and 44 Month.

The Great Camouflage opened in November 6, 2025, and it will remain on view until April 26, 2026. The exhibition was preceded in the summer of 2025 by an “unconventional conference,” Messy Things: A Think Bank in Shanghai, and will be followed up with a conference in early March 2026, in which Professor Green will participate.

More information: Rockbund Art Museum