The dim winter lights loomed blackly from unknown directions;
A vision stirred, vaguely familiar, flickering before turning strange and distant; That night, a silent pause settled, then shifted, leaving everything in suspense;
Time stagnated, halting the movement of day and night, as the thinned moments of dust and dawn blended into one another;
These moments were like fragments of unfinished narratives, waiting to be gathered, all existing at once;
They belong to neither past, nor present, nor future;
They belong to eternity.
About Artists
CHENG Yuzheng was born in Suzhou in 1977, graduated from the Berlin University of Arts in Germany, and currently lives and works in Berlin. The artist wants to establish a form that unfolds slowly, allowing painting’s possibilities to gradually emerge over time-exploring its depths, pushing its limits, and reorganizing familiar elements within painting. This process elevates them from a frozen past to an expression of the present. It is not about realism but about making illusions believable, much like the enchantment of magic. Through conceptually set scenes, fragments of daily life, art history, anecdotes, and mythology intertwine within the work, ultimately taking shape as a visual form.
Daniel Domig was born in 1983 in Vancouver, Canada. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Daniel studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, where he currently lives with his family. He has exhibited widely in Europe, North America and Australia over the past two decades. Daniel Domig explores social factors and building relationships as an aspect of the human condition through painting archetypal forms and paradigmatic figures. Metaphorically as well as literally, he is trying to discover where one person starts and another begins. Primarily, he depicts the human body in his work, but is aware of the treacherousness of figuration. As painting is both illustrative and narrative, it elevates the image to an object that it supposedly illustrates… he creates the “presence” of a figure, a visual feeling or visual aura which is very conscious in the reception of the viewer, without using obvious forms to bring it into existence.
FU Jiani was born in 1989, currently works and lives in Beijing. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL) in 2015. Selected exhibitions include: Errata and Dislocation, Group Exhibition, MGSpace, Beijing (2024); Suggested Reading of the Exhibition as a Forest (Parts 1 & 2), Magician Space, Beijing (2022); Critical Configuration, Group Exhibition, Leo Gallery, Shanghai (2020); Spatial Grammar Research Series I: Substrate, Langkong Art Museum, Beijing (2019); Becoming, Slade Group Exhibition, Migrant Bird Space, Beijing (2019).
LIU Cong was born in 1987 in Shandong Province, graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department in 2010, now lives and works in Beijing. Liu Cong continues his long-standing exploration of “painting” as a mode of expression. After removing different means of expression such as pictorial depiction, narrative, and knowledge production, Liu chooses to use a variety of ready-mades as “models.” While emphasizing the presence of the body, through the artificial “image-making” of these “objects” on canvas, along with detached reflection, he releases pictures with spiritual properties and gives them a perceptual tension.
SUN Minqi was born in 1988 in Shanghai and studied at the China Academy of Art and the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. She currently lives and works between Stuttgart and Shanghai. Her practice explores the subtle vibrations between the everyday and the psyche, employing painting, sculpture, and installation to construct imaginative spatial narratives. She investigates the relationships between emotion, consciousness, and states of being, while engaging in context-sensitive deconstruction and disruption of space. Core themes in her work include the imagination of intimate spaces, the possibilities of human–space interaction, the overlap of dreams and reality, and the tracing of memory.
ZHANG Hua was born in 1979 born in Pu’er, Yunnan Province. He graduated from the Sculpture Department of Yunnan Art Institute, now he lives and works in Kunming. Zhang Hua has held solo exhibitions and participated in important exhibitions at home and abroad, and his works have been collected by art museums, public spaces and other institutions. He explores the attributes and characteristics of Yunnan’s folk culture, and explores the connection between nature’s divinity, spirituality and humanity.
