2023.1.7 - 2023.3.5

Venue: D06, Middle 2nd St., 798 Art Zone, No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, BJ

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Tong Gallery+Projects is honored to announce that the solo exhibition of artist YE JIANG Folding Temple will be open from January 7th, 2023 to March 5th, 2023, during which the artist's latest paintings will be presented. Look forward to seeing you there!

   Folding Temple

You can find Ye Jiang's small temple in New York in 2017.

At that time, Ye Jiang was studying in New York. He built a small house with iron pipes, with a square bottom and a sharp top, like a children's sketch. In a video five years ago, Ye Jiang held the iron house in front of his chest or raised it above his head and ran fast in the streets of New York.

Five years later, this floating house image reappears, but there is no longer a wandering mood of Ye Jiang in a foreign land - just as in the end of the video, he ran to New York and threw the iron house into the river. Five years later, Ye Jiang only understood it as a "shape". He stacked the houses on top of each other, then folded them, that's all. This is a pure space game on the canvas.

"Folding" is just like a hidden clue of Ye Jiang's creative thinking in recent years. Folding itself includes two actions: bending and overlapping. First, space warping, dividing, and then stacking the divided space. Ye Jiang called "folding" an aggressive action, and the result was highly hierarchical and contradictory, which produced subtle intertextuality with his previous "Morandi series”.

Sometimes Ye Jiang intentionally exposes the canvas behind the image. The texture and color of the fabric are not only left blank, but become the picture itself. Daily objects produce tension with each other, creating a strange sense of stage. However, it is not difficult for the audience to find the channel of empathy. Ye Jiang painted paper strips, curtains, iron gates, and animal biscuits, just like the cabbage and kitchen paper in his painters and everything in his limited life in the past two years when he lived at home. This is undoubtedly enviable: sincere creation seems like a simple instinct for Ye Jiang, because creation is his fragmented but real life itself.