DAI YING

Dai Ying’s artistic language is rooted in layered processes and cyclical structures. Working primarily with Chinese Xuan paper, silk, oil paint, Chinese painting pigments, Japanese pigments and acrylic, she brings Eastern material traditions into dialogue with Western media, builds complex surfaces through repeated staining, painting, and gestural intervention. Spiral forms, flowing lines, and shifting densities recur throughout her work, evoking the circulation of energy, the cycles of life, and the permeability between body, nature, and cosmos. Her practice moves fluidly between control and dynamic flow of emotions, allowing materials to seep, overlap, and transform, resulting in works that appear both deliberate and organic.

Conceptually, Dai Ying’s work engages with questions of female subjectivity, collective memory, and the relationship between individual existence and broader social and cosmic structures. Her long-term research into what she terms the “Geo-Maternal” positions femininity not as a fixed identity, but as a generative force—one that emphasizes inclusivity, continuity, and renewal. Rather than offering direct narratives, her works function as fields of sensation, inviting viewers to experience painting as an active process rather than a resolved image.

In Lines of Infinity, Dai Ying’s works are presented alongside selected pieces by Yayoi Kusama and Atsuko Tanaka. Emerging from different historical and cultural contexts, these practices are brought into resonant dialogue through shared concerns with repetition, bodily presence, and the visualization of invisible forces. The exhibition does not seek comparison or chronology, but instead opens a space where energies resonate across time— where artistic gestures converge and amplify, reaching toward a shared, boundless potential.