Petitalk

Petitalk: Yuhao Chen

The term “alienation” seems to have evolved from internet slang into a descriptive term that can be applied to observe everyday life. The state of rest depicted by Yuhao, the occasional glances towards the audience, and the curled-up body, are common to humans, a complex and entangled emotion. The symbolic characters and animal images create a

Petitalk: Pippa El-Kadhi Brown

Pippa’s colors—so rare and wild—craft a passage to realms unseen, where time, space and memory meld—amorphous and serene. In waiting’s hush, the scene unfurls, the curtain lifts, the play begins. Behind the veil, the phantoms dance—as dreams through gold, silver strands.

Petitalk: Maggie Menghan Chen

A burl is the form a tree takes as it heals itself. Maggie’s sculpture often symbolizes how life chooses its place to grow and rest. As she puts it: “I aim to create works that resonate more with the human experience—allowing a universal, spiritual emergence of life to break through.”

Petitalk: Bradley Childs

In this exhibition, Bradley Childs delves into the delicate balance between functionality and art through his candle holders. The steel pins embedded within them are both fragile mends and poetic imperfections. As the candles slowly burn and the wax drips down, it seems to take root, sprouting from the candle holders themselves. When existence and

Petitalk: Ekene Stanley Emecheta

In the increasingly intense discourse on racial issues, Ekene offers us a gentler perspective. Ekene deliberately paints the skin white in his paintings, seemingly contrasting with dark, athletic skin tones. However, this expression reflects the artist’s deep contemplation on the ‘normalisation’ of gender and race. His paintings never consider the frame’s distance; what is rolled

Petitalk: Zhang Yi

“The courage to face the unnameable, the improvised, the ever-shifting unknown. Those lines and brushstrokes are traces of passion and vitality triggered from within, flowing outward. It feels as though, amidst the currents of fate, I can sense the ‘rudder’ residing within my body.”

Petitalk: FENG Shan

“But when sunlight poured into the room, these objects seemed so vibrant and lively, and that feeling is still with me until today.”

Petitalk: Yage Guo

Quiet and dreamy tones, silent burst of vitality, this is the Ammi Majus under Yage Guo’s brushes. Facing a wildflower, Yage painted as if she was painting two portraits of someone. Movement and stillness, softness and strength, following the laws of nature.

Petitalk: Harriet Gillett

The unchanging rose color is a hallmark of Harriet’s paintings, standing in contrast to the mud, melancholy, and loneliness that often exist in her works. Her secular interpretation of classical religious imagery reveals a sense of ‘Immortality and eternity in everyday life.’ She said, ‘I want to preserve the inherent eternal quality of human life.’

Petitalk: LiLi Ren

“For me, color has a mysterious power. It helps a certain feeling to emerge.” In this exhibition, Li Li enlarges the delicate images of fish scales to a grand scale and ensures that the colors on the sponge convey the most expressive effects, immersing viewers as if they were in a surreal otherworld, narrating hidden