The Beijing-based photographer Shi Guowei has opened a solo exhibition titled Festa at Fotografiska's newly launched Shenzhen venue, marking one of the first major photography shows in the institution's new home. The exhibition centers on the artist's signature hand-colored black-and-white photographs, images he tints by hand with water-based pigment to produce what he calls an 'authentic illusion' — or, in his preferred phrase, a 'felt truth.' After a decade of photographing natural subjects, Shi has turned his attention to what remains when celebration ends. The new works depict the aftermath of festivals: deflated decorations, abandoned stages, the debris of collective joy. Two 2026 pieces, Drum and Bridge, extend the series into large-scale formats where the hand-applied color sits in visible tension with the photographic base, neither fully painting nor fully photograph. Trained at the Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design and later at the Fachhochschule Dortmund, Shi works at the intersection of two traditions: the documentary precision of German photographic education and the material craft of hand-coloring, a technique with deep roots in early Chinese studio photography. He is represented in Beijing by Magician Space. The pairing of documentary subject matter with painstaking hand-coloring gives the work its distinctive charge: the photograph testifies that these scenes existed, while the pigment insists they were felt, a double claim the artist has refined across more than a decade of practice. For Fotografiska Shenzhen, still in its inaugural season, the show is a statement of intent: a solo presentation by a mid-career Chinese artist whose work rewards slow looking, installed in a venue built for photography at scale. The exhibition runs through the autumn, anchoring the new museum's opening program.