Gongmo Zhou

Long Story Short Paris is delighted to present Gongmo Zhou’s solo exhibition Bleus Écrans".

For his very first solo exhibition with us, the artist explores the convergence of two blues: the hue of the sky and that of screens. Through his paintings, Zhou delves into the intersections between the natural and digital realms, daylight and interface light. His compositions center on windows, reflections, glass surfaces, and phone screens, capturing moments from everyday life that oscillate between clarity and blur, intimacy and distance. Reflections become passageways, frames transform into thresholds, and the image serves as both a site of emergence and erasure. Rather than reproducing the visible, Zhou's canvases evoke the interplay between presence and absence, presenting a perception that is fluid, uncertain, poised between reality and memory.

Bleus Écrans subtly shifts from one blue to another, from one gaze to the next, and from a tangible world to a diffused one—a blue sky transforms into a screen, and a screen, with its luminosity, merges with the sky.

"A blue rises

on the cold pane

another pulses

in the hollow of the hand

the sky blinks

behind a reflection

a breath

left on the screen

we no longer know

who watches

who crosses

blue becomes threshold

threshold becomes silence"

—Gongmo Zhou