Ruichao Jiang

All About A Little Bit Fat is a show featuring A Little Bit Fat – artist Ruichao Jiang's Avian alter ego. The show collects and presents a wide range of Jiang's attempts – 32 pieces in total – in capturing the presence of A Little Bit Fat. The white body, the colored backgrounds, the brushes, the textures, the materials, the occupancy, and even the air around are ways A Little Bit Fat exists in reality that Jiang bartered with human time and effort. The show is a phased approach to embody this ongoing exchange that leaves behind a series of white, warm, chubby, but hollow circular dots in the long corridor of arrays of existences.

All Street Gallery is where the curator, shuang cai, first collaborated with Jiang and A Little Bit Fat. As mentioned in the exhibition text, A Little Bit Fat was presented as a SPAM meat project for the SPAMtember show hosted in All Street, Dec 2023. Having All Street to be the vessel of the marking stage of A Little Bit Fat in All Street is a functional choice, but more importantly, an intentional manifestation of the community of practice that has formed and continues to evolve around the creature, the artist, the curator, and the gallery space.

Please join us to see and celebrate how the warm desolation can take on physical weight and become a shared, sustaining body of community.

Ruichao is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher currently based in New York. Her artistic practice encompasses speculative design, installation, textile, and painting. She holds a Bachelor of Agriculture in Landscape Architecture from Southwest University in China and a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work explores the impact of science and technology on cultural formation and identity construction. Themes in her practice include gender politics, biopolitics, popular culture, and sexuality. Her works have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Meisha Art Center (China), and beyond, with her self-published brochure Welcome to Male Pregnancy included in the collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.