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Group Exhibitions
· 2022 China Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Contemporary Art Collection Committee of ChinaCollectors Association, Online
· 2023 Absurdity: In Dada We Trust, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
· 2023 Through The Looking Glass, The Mall, London, UK
· 2023 Tale of the Chain, Greatorex Street, London, UK
Collections
· Binding, 2023, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
· Pearl earring, 2024, Private Collection, Beijing,
Publications & Press
· 2024 Featured Artist, Suboart Magazine
Statement
“In my artistic practice, I strive to be a fieldworker of daily life and micro-narratives. I believe the world's most profound mysteries are hidden not in grand declarations, but in the mundane, fleeting moments that surround us. My work is an ongoing dialogue with these very instances.
My inspiration is deeply personal, rooted in the most fundamental daily acts: walking, waiting, observing. I am fascinated by the subtle, often unspoken relationships between things—the relationship between a shaft of light and a wall, a gust of wind and a falling leaf, a thought and an action. Through forms such as performance, installation, or ephemeral sculpture, I attempt to capture the "field" of these relationships and translate them into a perceptible visual poetry. For me, medium is a choice guided by intuition, its final form serving the authentic expression of lived experience.
My work, Sugar cube Staircase, serves as a fitting footnote. For a colony of ants by a wall, I constructed a tiny, temporary architecture from sugar cubes. This act was, on one level, a personal practice of "care" and "purposeless effort." On another, as the sugar dissolved in rain and time, only to be carried away by the ants to their nest, the piece completed a cycle of material transformation and energy transfer. It ceased to be merely an object, becoming instead an event, a process, a metaphor. It quietly poses questions: How do we define "monumental" and "minuscule"? Where do our interventions in the world ultimately lead?
This lies at the core of my work: to refract, through the prism of personal experience, the universal yet overlooked connections between humans and all things. I do not seek to provide answers, but rather, through these subtle and precise interventions, to offer the viewer a new "fulcrum for seeing." When one bends down to observe the ants' ascent, they might reconsider their own place in the world; when a habitual perspective is disrupted, the potential for new perceptions and empathy is born.
My art is the language with which I converse with the world. It is humble, open, and steadfast in its belief that within the most ordinary textures of life lie the keys to understanding and connection.”
Gao Lingyun