Curated by critic Wang Chunchen, “Only for Proof – Young Contemporary Art Exhibition” is presented at G-Dot Art Space in Eastern Art District, Beijing from October 31 through to November 15, 2013, collectively featuring the works by 12 artists including Xu Qi, Yu Yang, Li Bingyuan, Liu Yi, Xiao Kai, Li Wenfeng, Li Zifeng, Li Liang, Meng Boshen, Gao Sihua, Shi Yuanxin, Yuan Kun. It is at the same time as the 8th China Songzhuang Cultural Art Festival opens, thus Songzhuang Art District is more lively than ever before, as one of the most popular and expected exhibition, “Only for Proof – Young Contemporary Art Exhibition” adds a new scenery to Songzhuang Art Festival.

The interpretation of the exhibition title is what curator Wang Chunchen wrote in the exhibition preface:" It’s an era that we can neither get only one standard, nor a unified individual consciousness, only our own way. Everyone is seeking the realization of self value, and is full of desire for the future, although it isn’t a prescriptive objective."

It’s an age where alienation is more than consistent, while confusion is more than leisurely. When an individual is thrown into the vast world, what does he rely on and how does he develop? When you are not beholden to God, we have nothing but ourselves! It’s an era when only effort could prove the existence, only the hard-working could anchor a sail, and only prove to ourselves that this is the way to prove the world. There are more than ten million roads; art doesn’t seek a common ground, and permission for contradictory concepts, only by dissecting the lines surrounding us, the shadows are heavily pressurised, the words numb us! In order to prove ourselves, we must break those misfortunes which distress us. It isn’t necessary for the art to act like the art in any case, while art is precisely to hit every stereotype. Only as proof, as proof to our existence, our lives and our own expectation for the future, instead of art! We ask for proof rather than art.”