Xinyi Cheng

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Balice Hertling is pleased to present the first solo show of Xinyi Cheng at the gallery.

Follow the brush. Xinyi Cheng still likes to paint in a quiet, empty and well-lit room.

She makes paintings based on love, trust, honesty, sharing, friendship, sincerity, intuition, humor, impermanence, inefficiency, smallness, multiplicity, clumsiness, fantasy, emotion, fertility, misunderstanding, uncertainty, subtleness, harmony, happiness, and perhaps more values that have been confused with the wind disappearing in the night;

Heaven and Earth, Yin-Yang, the universe;

the undiscovered potential of feminist sensibilities. When your body is a given, what can you explore instead of represent or remain?

Fremdschämen is a word that describes a feeling of being ashamed about something someone else has done. Complexity is sometimes compressed to a singular form. Ego, time and space, they mixed with the water in our bodies. There are matters that have never been in their pure forms, and perhaps there will never be pure forms to be perceived by humans. Vulgarity and ignorance, what are the micro ways towards defining them? The hands of a barber, they give in.

‘You see the color the hue the same you see the shape the form the same you see the unchangeable and the unchanged the same you smell filtered edited through progress and westernization the same you see the numberals and innumerables bonding overlaid the same, speech, the same. You see the breath and out of will but you still see the will. Will and will only espouse this land this sky this time this people. You are one same particle. You leave you come back to the shell left empty all this time. To claim to reclaim, the space. Into the mouth the wound the entry is reverse and back each organ artery gland pace element, implanted, housed skin upon skin, membrane, vessel, waters, dams, ducts, canals, bridges." Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

- Cici Wu

Xinyi Cheng (b. 1989, Wuhan, China) lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (USA) and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA). She has recently had a solo show at Practice, an artist-run-space in New York. She is a current artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

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Balice Hertling a le plaisir de présenter la première exposition personnelle de Xinyi Cheng à la galerie.

Xinyi Cheng (1989, Wuhan, Chine) vit et travaille à Amsterdam. Elle a étudié au Maryland Institute College of Art (USA) et à la Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA). Elle a récemment eu une exposition personnelle chez Practice, un lieu d'exposition organisé par un groupe d'artistes à New York. Actuellement elle est artiste en residence à la Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.