Nan Ke Gallery is pleased to share that Lingrou Xie, will be holding a conversation on April 19, 2025 at ICA Shanghai, NYU Center for Contemporary Art, which is free and open to the public with no registration required.
Installation view of Vitalisms, March 20, 2025 - June 14, 2025, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai © Courtesy of the artist & ICA
There can be no theory of painting without a dialog with the artist. “Vitalisms is an experimental exhibition and the beginning of a long-term research and education program that explores “historicity” and “value” in contemporary Chinese painting. It explores “historicity” and “value” in contemporary Chinese painting. Born in 1999 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, Xie graduated from the Painting Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts and the Expressive Painting Studio of Capital Normal University. Lingrou Xie's creations originate from a personal perspective of life form remodeling, seeking formal resources from her own unique life experience, and at the same time, digging into the depths of her memories to depict the objects, and trying to establish an apt connection between the two. On the canvas, it is the misappropriation of real images and the co-presentation of different images (living and non-living) about disordered memories. She constructs memories on the individual's self-schema, simulating the process of memory rewriting and overwriting through multi-layered masking imagery. Lingrou Xie's work has been exhibited in institutions across China, including solo exhibitions at Nan Ke Gallery (Shanghai, 2024) and Ten Points Sleep Art Space (Beijing, 2023). She currently lives and works in Hangzhou.By focusing on her figurative paintings created in the last five years (i.e. after 2020), we ask the following questions:
What is the history of these works? What are the contexts in which they were created? Can they become historical records of individual and collective memory in the future? Will they constitute a counter-hegemonic archive?
Rather than presenting the results of the research that has already been done, “Raw Power” is an experimental exhibition in that it opens a dialog with the participating artists, discussing their paintings and exploring the above questions. Afterwards, we will organize and publish these conversations.
You are welcome to join us to learn how the artists think, talk and feel about painting.
April 15, 2025
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