ZHANG Ruyi is participating the "4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts / Stress Field" co-organized by the Hubei Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Literature Art Center, where her works are included in the section of "Secret Power" (the interactive force within the things). The exhibition draws support from a unique term out of physics and geology to develop a discursive field that applys to the internal and external structure around different things and objects with its aim to provide certain cross-section profiles of the current civilized order of the human society. ZHANG Ruyi utilizes cactus and some other natural elements to develop the vis-à-vis integrating or confrontational relationships between sculpture and architecture, taking the method of "trussing" and "stripping", also "blocking" to install her language of building geometry.
Selected works
Installation view of the "4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts / Stress Field", 2017, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan
From left: ZHANG Ruyi, Grapes, concrete, wooden panel with ceramic tiles, wood pedestal and belt, 10 × 28 × 12 cm (grapes)，13 × 80 × 80 cm (wooden panel and pedestal); ZHANG Ruyi, Split Room, 2017, concrete and readymade (wooden door) , 190 × 4.5 × 30 cm; ZHANG Ruyi, Planter 2, 2017, construction debris, cactus thorns and acrylic, 16 × 22 × 18 cm; ZHANG Ruyi, Decoration, Spot, 2017, concrete, mosaics, cactus thorns and acrylic, 40 × 60 × 50 cm
Courtesy of the "4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts / Stress Field"
Installation view (detail), 2017, Fine Arts Literature Art Center, Wuhan
Courtesy of the "4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts / Stress Field"
The exhibition will last until 20 October 2017.
