ZHANG Yunyao: Palace of Alienation, Part II: Solo Exhibition

Don Gallery is very pleased to announce that ZHANG Yunyao's solo exhibition, Palace of Alienation (Pat II), will be presented during the Shanghai art season from 8 November to 8 December 2024 at Shanghai SUHE HAUS, 2F Room 203. This exhibition is the latest presentation of the artist's large-scale new works since his 2019 solo exhibition Palace of Extasy, and was curated by ZHANG Li. At the same time, the exhibition will echo ‘Palace of Alienation (Part I)’, which will be held at HE Art Museum, Shunde on 10 November, extending the theme of creation in the form of ‘dialogue between two cities’.

Unlike the first part of The Palace of Alienation, in which ZHANG Yunyao changed the colours and patterns, the second part of the exhibition sticks to the previous medium of graphite pencil and white felt, suspending objects in a specific space and time as material-independent pure images. These items and sceneries combine in intimate and contradictory psychological agitations to become emotional validators, mirroring the artist's and his associates' position. Simultaneously, reproduction and gaze constitute a spectral liminal moment, drawing and releasing time's energy in the exhibition space's heterogeneous form.