Fu Xiaotong: NUN-6 Silence

Ginkgo Space is pleased to announce that Fu Xiaotong's second solo exhibition at Gingko Space, "NUN-6 Silence", will open on August 3, 2024. This exhibition is the artist's first solo exhibition in Shenzhen, and will last until September 30.

"NUN" is the title of the artist's solo exhibition, which has been used in recent years. In ancient times, "NUN" refers to a chaotic body of life, which was once called Mother Earth and is now translated as nun. Using the ancient female motif of "NUN", Fu Xiaotong began to explore the aspects of women and society, as well as women and their spiritual world. In Fu Xiaotong's artistic clues, she often uses rice paper which represents body as the origin of creation, and then extends to different media such as sculpture and film. The works produce introspection and speculation from the female perspective, and at the same time radiate oriental aesthetic temperament from the form of mind.

In this exhibition, Fu Xiaotong will present the latest series of works named "pinholes on paper", from which the shape of "landscape" is subtly transformed into layers of rolling hills floating in front of the sharp mountains above the clouds. It seems as the peaks of clouds and fog accumulate into a broad mountain scenery, or as the calm and serene figure of the back.

The artist's line accurately pushes the foreground to the long view, and makes the work exude an ethereal charm. Another group of work is a five meters long paper work consists of 40 small pieces of rice paper, inspired by the clouds on the plane between Berlin and Beijing during Fu Xiaotong’s flight. She transformed these memories of clouds into abstract vision and implicit tension on the rice paper; The "clouds" observed on the plane and the needle are juxtaposed together in the form of an image, in which the clouds float from west to east, and the needle moves from east to west and pricks the artist's pupil, which forms the state of infinite proximity and inaccessibility. This sharp perspective comes more from the artist's conscious choices - the fragility and tenacity of women, the struggle to become sober in living in cultural differences, and constantly reshaping her subjectivity through expanding her works.

Fu Xiaotong, born in 1976 in Shanxi, China, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in 2000 with a bachelor's degree and from the Experimental Art Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 with a master's degree. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Beijing. Important solo exhibition in recent years: NUN-6 (Ginkgo Space, Shenzhen, 2024); NUN-3 (Ginkgo Space, Beijing, 2022); NUN-3 (Chambers Fine Art, New York, 2022) Fu Xiaotong's works have been collected by Fidelity Arts, Johnson Art Museum of Cornell University, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, White Rabbit Gallery of Australia, Zhejiang Art Museum of China, and other public institutions.