ZHOU Li: Closest Yet Farthest

Zhou Li: Closest Yet Farthest
Curator: Shu Kewen
Opening: 9/13（Sat.）16:00
Duration: 9/13 - 11/12（Tue. - Sat. 11:00 - 18:00）
Address: ShanghART Beijing
261 Caochangdi, Airport Side Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

In her large-scale works such as “The World in a Flower” and “Night”, Zhou Li lets the colours and lines receive the overflowing energy that seems to break through the boundaries of the frames, permeating into larger space and blurring the internal and the external. Through the layering of acrylic and other mixed materials, a translucent and overlapping visual field unfolds, where various elements simultaneously resonating and exhibiting their own vitality in the emergence, while creating a dynamic tranquility. Much like in works such as “Shadow of the Wind”, “Rose of Light”, and “The Peach Blossom Spring”, the confluence of tension and harmony, lightness and heaviness, near and far, and the resonance between experience and the world, all in free flow, as well as the tension between random and order, makes a specific tone of Zhou Li’s works. Unconstrained by the concept of abstract art, she goes for the "re-enchantment” of things.

Zhou Li's paintings maintain this free-flowing, rhythmic language rooted in ink wash painting. Here, ink wash is not merely a technique but an intrinsic rhythm of emotion and perception infused by generations of literati painters—a medium for marking their experiences and feelings. It is an echo of time, a bridge connecting the inner and outer realms.