Jenni Niskala, Xiao Zhiyu

Jenni Niskala: Summer Diary

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Xiao Zhiyu

Through reconfiguring the gallery space into a hypothetical library - an assemblage constituted by piles of paintings on wooden stands, sporadically distributed books, iphone-screen size photos and handwritten texts on the walls, as well as the constant intra-actions and meaning production of human subjects - the exhibition explores the relational network within itself. In encouraging the viewers to physically perform intimate actions such as to touch, move, turn over, and maybe to hang the paintings, the network reshapes itself dynamically dedicating the improvised poetics of displacement to the construction of knowledge, inter-references and significance.

About the artist

Xiao Zhiyu (b. 1994) is a Helsinki-based artist. His research and practice explores the poetics of displacement and the relational network of matter and body, both human and non-human. He briefly studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Aalto University before obtaining a BFA in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. He is currently completing his MFA painting at Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts Helsinki.

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