As yet, Shi Zhiying has never directly represented the glories or sufferings of human beings. She repeatedly employs profound black and white tones to illustrate and recall the silent objects in the world around – a vast expanse of sea, wild grassland, and the immense moorland of rocks... The viewers, however, in such a quiet world without the sound and fury of reality, can feel the self-explanatory power in the unseen world. Psychologically speaking, Shi Zhiying’s painting is an instinctive reaction to “existence”; it is a prolonged and visualized memory. She enables the viewers to hear the ultimate question of people of old.

The exhibition “Between Past and Future” will present her latest works, including “100 Figures of Bodhisattva” and “Mani Stone”. Both of the former were created as Shi Zhiying’s daily homework – she kept on drawing one figure of Bodhisattva each day, and then later, the mani stone which was accumulated by the Tibetan prayers during a very very long time, were certain kinds of ceremonies built in one’s soul. In an ever-changing world, all the material phenomena are destined to be eroded, corrupted and swallowed by time, slowly, without being noticed. While the statement and action to one’s soul can exist in between the past and the future, immortality.

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Born in Shanghaiin 1979, Shi Zhiying graduated from the Fine Arts College of Shanghai University with a Master Degree of Oil Painting in 2005. She currently lives and works in Shanghai.

About the Exhibition

Opening: 4pm, June 23rd, 2012

Date: June 23rd - July 30th, 2012

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Courtesy of Shi Zhiying and White Space, Beijing.