Don Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of Zhang Ruyi’s solo project “Profile” at Discoveries, 2018 edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong. Zhang Ruyi’s artistic practice embeds itself in nothing less than the logic of life. It is centered on the relationship between ego consciousness, physical space, and mundane experience. By withholding certain “slices” of time and information of the material employed, the artist is able to capture, conceal, retain or fabricate the materialization of emotions. “Profile” is an exploration of the frictions between individuals and reality. Its position is that of a discursive apparatus, transforming the tactile into the visual. The works are reinterpretations, so to speak, of mundane elements that suggest the reconstruction of an individual being accommodated by specific situations.
// About the Artist //
Zhang Ruyi (b. 1985) is an artist currently living and working in Shanghai. She works predominantly in abstract drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. In her practice, sculpture occupies a unique space mediating artifacts, industrial experience and urbanism. Zhang’s work has been presented by Sadie Coles HQ (London, 2017), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017), Cass Sculpture Foundation (Chichester, 2016), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing, 2016), chi K11 art museum (Shanghai, 2016), Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2015), etc. Her solo exhibitions include “Building Opposite Building” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2016), “Pause” (White Space Beijing, Beijing, 2016), “Cut | Off” (Don Gallery, Shanghai, 2014), etc. Zhang is the recipient of Prix YISHU 8 · Chine 2017 and the participant of the 2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Programme.
