FRIEZE LONDON 2024

A highlight of the booth will be Yin Xiuzhen’s powerful work from her Weapon series. Horizontally hung in the middle of the booth, these fabric sculptures swing between softness and harshness, standstill and swiftness, prompting corporeal movements and physical interactions, which explore the tension between softness and force, prompting viewers to engage both physically and emotionally with the work. WhenYin was invited to make a work for the Chinese Pavilion in the52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, Yin made the Weapon series. Yin’s work has garnered international acclaim, with pieces collected by museums and institutions, including Tate Modern.

Hu’s flimsy raw silk, on the other hand, exudes the delicate and fugitive feelings that poetically echo with the traces on the materials like wood and discarded steel, building up to her unique visual vocabulary tinged with Eastern philosophy. Imbued with nuanced light effects and textural references, Liang’s painting strikes the viewers with contrasts between brightness and darkness, everydayness and spirituality, articulating the awareness of self that navigates between the rational and emotional. Pervading Ma’s playful and provocative works of her early years to the more introspective works of recent times are a complex range of emotions about the female experience inherited or fractured between generations. With seemingly archival features and, conversely, poetic connotations, Chang’s suite of coral sketches unveils the undercurrent of language, an intimate relationship between nature and human society. Exploring the interconnections between types of visual materials, Shi delves into the image of sorts in today’s mediated world and reexamines its relationship with personal experience.