Press Release

On occasion of his first solo show at Platform China HK, Zhou Yilun (1983) creates a site-specific installation inspired by space, the context of the city, and also reflecting on his attitude towards art. The show includes objects and accessories taken from old science fiction movies, creating one unique landscape where subject and content merge with the drawings and paintings on display.

“Who takes us to outer space” now that we, people on Earth are capable to fly into space, artisanship has been replaced by technology, kings replaced by businessmen, and art has long been abandoned. All that is left is a yearning for beautiful old times. So, never mind what we have to give up to and what we shall keep. There are no rules, and what we will give up has been already given up, and what we will keep forever has already been kept.”  (Zhou Yilun, April 2013)

Considering painting and making art as a playful activity, Zhou Yilun epitomizes a sense of disjunction with traditional pictorial language and gives birth to compositions born from a processing of visual information and mass media, reinterpreted in a new format.

Zhou Yilun, “Who’s Taking Us To Outer Space?” post