Exhibition Foreword
"Art is not a sublime landing. ”
- Badiou
Art is a soft landing. Softness is a gesture, an artist's method of capturing and collaging emotions. Landing is a process, a return of the soft creator to the earth. In both the Eastern and Western civilizational traditions, the earth is a symbol of femininity, a soft and true home, all-encompassing, carrying all things. "Shuowen" cloud "kun, earth also", just as the Greeks worshipped Gaia, the god of the earth, as the mother of the gods. The poetess Sinboska fantasized about being Vermeer, saying: "I can land softly on the green grass".
The connection between women and aesthetics has changed throughout the history of civilization. The group exhibition of Xu Jing, Liu Jialing, Yi Yajing, Hu Nan and Yang Yi presented a "soft landing" this March, in which the folds of soft rice paper are the texture of linen and the static electricity generated by the fibers of woven bags touching the air. Softness is a concrete practice of female artists. This exhibition points to a true female stance, and the five female artists present not a symbolic identity politics, no need to separate positions by gender, just a soft landing is enough to connect each specific person, and complete the aesthetic imagination from heaven to earth.
Form and material, truth and position, perception and idea flow.
Produced by Bright Spot Cultural and Creative Park, hosted by Snow Lotus Highlight Art Center, and co-organized by Nuovo Gallery, the group exhibition "Soft Landing" will open on March 8, 2024 on the first floor of Bright Spot Shichijo Cultural and Creative Park, located at No. 114 East Sichijo, and will last until April 7, 2024.
This exhibition mainly exhibits a total of 50 works by five female artists: Xu Jing, Yi Yajing, Liu Jialing, Yang Yi and Hu Nan. Every March, women's issues are back in the spotlight. On the occasion of International Women's Day, the exhibition of these works shows the methods of female artists to capture and collage emotions and pay tribute to the power of women.
Introduction of the participating artists
Xu Jing. Born in Beijing.
Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Capital Normal University.
He used to be an external teacher at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
He is a course teacher at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts.
He currently lives in Beijing. 
Title of work: **7.
Art forms: mineral pigments, colored clay, linen, wood.
Artwork size: 45x60x55cm
Created in: 2023.
Yi Yajing. Born in Guangxi.
He graduated from Xi'an University of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree.
Graduated from Tama Art University in Japan.
He currently lives in Beijing. 
Title of the work: Fantasy of a wasteland in vain.
Art form: woven bag, oil painting frame.
Size: 110x80x3cm
Created in: 2023.
Liu Jialing. Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Rome Academy of Fine Arts.
He currently lives in Beijing. 
Title of work: Graduate.
Art form: Oil on canvas.
Artwork size: 30x40cm
Created in: 2020.
Yang Yi. Born in Chongqing.
Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
He currently lives in Beijing. 
Title of work: Retrospective No7
Art form: Digital art.
Artwork size: 80x80cm
Created in: 2023.
Hu Nan. Born in Jilin.
Graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
He currently lives in Beijing. 
Title: Swing Together No1
Art form: acrylic on canvas.
Artwork size: 40x50cm
Created in: 2019.
Curator Introduction
Liao Yiqi. Young Scholar and Curator. Postdoctoral fellow in Liberal Arts at the School of Arts, Peking University, and Ph.D. in Literature from Renmin University of Chinese. He graduated from the School of Arts of Wuhan University with a bachelor's degree and the University of Birmingham with a master's degree. His theoretical research and curatorial interests focus on the perceptual quality of contemporary life and the integration and transformation of modern art tastes. At the same time, he is good at speculative and critical writing, and has published reviews and theoretical chapters in many journals such as "Guangming **", "Foreign Aesthetics", "Tianya", and "Poetry Magazine".
Introduction to the exhibition space
Highlights of the Cultural and Creative ParkHighlights: Seven of a kindThe project is located in the core ancient capital style protection area of Dongcheng DistrictEast 47 Hutong, a field that integrates the unique and profound cultural heritage of the core area and the infinite vitality of modernityIt is a Jingyun Garden theme office space project created by Bright Cultural and Creative Park in 2018, which is positioned as a diversified office space of "cultural creativity".