“See you when I see you | Yi yi yi yi”, Zhang Xiaoyue’s first solo exhibition was held from April Fool’s Day to Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2013 in the Channel Gallery owned by the Department of Sculpture, CAFA. The theme “See you when I see you | Yi yi yi yi” like the antithesis in poems, this is her retrospective exhibition covering the last five years’ college study. It’s See you and See you again.

Zhang Xiaoyue tends to treat the starting point and the terminal point as one, keeping the ontological nature of creation with controlled intervention-- the process of creating by borrowing God’s force to make force and playing God. Zhang Xiaoyue’s works made the departure point meet the destination, take advantage of a force gram striking a force. The exhibition period from April Fool’s Day to Tomb-Sweeping Day denotes—foolishness, joy, solstice and death in Chinese characteristics. It justly means: serious attitude, clumsy manner, brisk tone and assured faith.

Zhang Xiaoyue was born in 1990 in Shaanxi. She was an exchange student in the Paris Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and will graduate from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts this year.

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The moon waxes only to wane, water brims only to overflow.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

By God's grace, artistic creations are born between borrowing force to make force and playing God, which originates from destination--a circle that repeats round and round all the time.

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In Chinese philosophy, Yin and yang are opposing forces which are interconnected giving rise to each other in turn.

By God's grace, artistic creations are born between borrowing force to make force and playing God, which originates from destination- a circle that repeats all the time.

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Time, sentiments, condition, phenomena, even one's own creation--hair, naturally form a sculpture with personal uniqueness.

Restoring the creation back to its creator, the portrait is endowed with fresh significance.

Courtesy of the artist, for further information please contact her via 1yiy1@live.cn or visit www.zhangyiy.com.