10 September - 4 october 2025
The whole gallery space is curated by
Xu Xiong
I WANT TO DO LITTLE THING
FEATURING four artists across the gallery spaces
Zhao Meng
91008:1
Medium: 3D animation, video, balloon Duration: 5min 42sec
Year:2022 Country: China
Statement
The video was created during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, capturing street scenes in Zhengzhou—the artist’s hometown—and the thriving street stall economy of that time. The map recording the walking route was mapped on the virtual body, and finally formed into a map by displaying UV Body. Use footsteps to measure the city, use the virtual body as the carrier of the walking area map, and prove the presence of the body through the recording of urban space. The total distance she walked, in proportion to the length of her foot, was 91,008:1.
Artist Bio
Zhao Meng (b. 1997) is based in Beijing. She received her MA from the School of Experimental Art and Science and Technology Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and her BA in Oil Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Working across 3D animation, video, computer games, AI, and performance, her practice explores the intersections of the virtual and the real, technology and the body. She investigates how digital spaces generate new structures of experience through continuous replication and recomposition, reflecting on the dilemmas, absences, and possibilities of repair in human emotions in the digital age, and using technological media to reconsider bodily experience and collective memory.
Chen Qiheng
How Orchids Think: Becom(e)ing Orchids
Medium: Single HQ channel video Duration: 25min 47sec
Year: 2024 Country: China
Statement
How Orchids Think: Becom(e)ing Orchids begins with Darwin's anecdote of "unveiling the theater of orchids" and unfolds as an exploration of the discovery, introduction history, cultural symbolism, and mimetic attributes of orchids. The mimetic biological qualities of orchids inspire the artist to imagine an ideal, fluid, and hybrid bodily state. In this piece, the artist learns the "orchid fingers" gesture, dons orchid-like clothing, and imitates orchid "postures" in an attempt to "become an orchid." The video concludes with an "Orchid Manifesto": "Many of us have never become orchids, so orchids are an ideal for us, distilled from the past to imagine the future. We encourage all orchids to come forth."
Artist Bio
Living and working in Guangzhou, Qiheng graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in fine art and from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2023 with a major in experimental art and video art research. His projects originate from familiar yet strangely distant objects or landscapes. He is particularly interested in the energy reflected through form and content—an energy that resonates with individual or collective memory. The stream-of-consciousness narration, carrying fragmented memories, leads him to infuse personal emotions and storytelling into his practice. Through appropriation, juxtaposition, and re-translation, he reconstructs a fluid and introspective mode of expression.
Founder of “Lanting Without Preface” in Guangzhou. Lanting Not Prefaced is located in Shenjing Ancient Village, Guangzhou. It is a project-based space that focuses on the dynamics between self-mobility and external participation. It is neither a community space nor an alternative art space, but rather a fluid entity that interweaves personal projects, interpersonal relationships, everyday practices, and cultural actions—continuously expanding in a generative relationship with architectural space.
Mady Cheng
《catch me》
Medium: 3:4, two channel video installation, size variable
Duration: 4min 33sec | 1 min 49 sec
Statement
《catch me》is a two channel video installation about finding your other half on social media.
曾经我们是一体
谁将我们分离？
你的另一半在哪里？
是要去追他 还是等他来追你？
Woven into a single self, once we were.
Torn apart, by whom it was?
Where drifts your missing piece?
To linger, or to catch: shall one seek?
Artist Bio
Mady Cheng (b. 1997 in New Zealand) is an artist hailing from Beijing. With a keen focus on analog photography and lo-fi filmmaking, Mady's artistic endeavors embody a unique blend of resourcefulness and creativity. Embracing the limitations of available equipment, she employs role-playing, nostalgic aesthetics reminiscent of 90's home movies, DIY music, and straightforward special effects to externalize the conflicts within herself. Through her art, Mady invites viewers to explore the intricacies of personal struggle and introspection.
Shen Jinghao
KungFu 《功夫》
Medium: video Duration: 16min 53sec
Year: 2022 Country: China Language: Cantonese
Statement
The film puts the spotlight on a 'chivalrous girl'-a character often featured in Chinese martial arts literature and cinema. Set against in a small town with surreal backdrop, the film depicts this heroine from a bygone era strolling through today's streets, offering a tribute to the everyday modern world. Meanwhile, the chivalrous girl played by the artist himself also brought some queer inquiries.
Artist Bio
Born in 1995, currently living and working in Chengdu and Beijing. Shen Jinghao graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In his recent artistic practice, he has been focusing on gender studies, using film, performance, and installations, exploring the dynamic relationships between the body, gender identity, and social contexts, from contrasting, dislocating, and fluid perspectives.