Yun-Fei Ji (b. 1963, Beijing) presents Together, his fourth solo exhibition at Zeno X Gallery.
Yun-Fei Ji is a storyteller who takes contemporary events and the lives of ordinary people as subjects of his work. He addresses socio-political themes such as migration, labour and climate change and subtly denounces the impact of power structures. In the past, Ji mainly drew and painted using watercolour and ink on handmade rice paper in a visual language closely related to classical Chinese painting. To broaden the scope of his work, he recently started to experiment with oil paint and acrylic on canvas. After all, rather than being restricted to a Chinese reality, the subject matter of his work has global relevance. Both in these new paintings, as in his work on paper, Ji challenges and questions our expectations of what contemporary painting can be.