Almost a month has passed, and I finally found time to reflect on a group exhibition I participated in Beijing. Emerging through conversation and collaboration, the exhibition took place at Dazheng’s, an experimental art space located in a village on the outskirts of the city. Dazheng’s challenges conventional ideas of what an art space can be and how it can operate (by showcasing the work of artists, non-artists and the local community), and is run by Wang Furong, Wang Dazheng, and
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The exhibition brought together three women (Wang Furong,
@yanthedruid @aikaterini_gegisian ) with very different relationships to artmaking, while also revealing different ways of understanding and connecting to nature. The process was not just one of compiling works, but of an exchange of perspectives, of how we respond to the realities immediately around us: how material cultures form archives of lived experiences, and how technological images shape not only our perception but also frame nature as an object.
On the opening night, Wang Furong initiated a performative act in which we helped relocate two elm trees from a neighbouring rooftop, turning a regulatory necessity into symbolic gesture highlighting the ways women are continually asked to adapt, reposition themselves, and make space within existing structures. Zeng Yan using discarded yarns rescued from house clearances and hand-dyed with organic pigments, she created a woven piece that became both a monument to the impossibility of black and a reflection on the life histories carried within the yarns. I contributed works drawn from What Happens If We Only See in Circles?, including textile curtains, collages, and a site-based vinyl installation, works that moved across different scales, engaging with the domestic space, ecological imagination and alternative ways of seeing.
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Group Exhibition
📍 Dazheng’s, Beijing
Curated by Su Wei
🗓 8 April – 30 June 2026
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