BI RONGRONG

Through the process of reorganisation, integration, and confrontation, these patterns reveal the culture, knowledge, social, or natural evolution context of their respective groups and places that were originally hidden from the eye. As the curator Xu Sheng put it: ‘The wall is the pattern of architecture, the street is the pattern of city, the plant is the pattern of nature, and the wrinkle of clothing is the pattern of life... The patterns are often abstract, silent, and expressionless, but their overall shape, delicate details, and texture materials all reveal the invisible power hidden in time, life, or natural circulation. The study and observation of these patterns, as well as the meditation and imagination that come from them, are not only a kind of sorting out the complicated appearances in the tide of the times, but also a practice of the ancestors’ saying “learning from the nature of things”.’

Different patterns are like puzzles waiting to be answered, while Bi Rongrong walks through these puzzles and turns her work into another pattern. From the brush to the extension of light and shadow, from the painting plane to the real space, then further to a broader plane, these works travel through different materials and dimensions. They are still like a puzzle, but they are endowed with spiritual life because of their organic structure. It is not fixed, but growing. It is an animal in a woven plane. It absorbs new materials and ideas to obtain nutrients and form works; each line in the work is like one of its nerve endings, extending outward. This is the origin of the exhibition title Animal in Two Dimensions. Now, it is about to show part of its true face in A Thousand Plateaus Art Space.