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Mizuma Gallery is proud to present Reverberations – 余象, a group exhibition of four female Chinese artists, Guo Jing, Lü Nan, Yang Xuxia, and Zuo Er, whose distinct visual languages explore the spaces where reality and memory, the visible world and the inner realm of consciousness intersect. Through their paintings, the artists reveal the manifold possibilities that emerge from the interplay of perception, memory, and imagination.
The landscapes and forms we encounter do not simply disappear once the moment have passed. They linger in the depths of memory, where, over time, they become intertwined with emotions, experiences, and imagination. Gradually departing from their original appearance, they transform into new images imbued with meanings of their own.
Beginning with fragments of the human body, Guo Jing explores the relationships between the physical form, consciousness, and existence through subtle shifts of light and shadow. Beneath the skin lies an inner universe shaped by emotions, memories, and consciousness. Beyond it stretches another universe, boundless and infinite. The skin becomes both a boundary separating these two realms and a place where they meet, touch, and resonate with one another. In her paintings, familiar fragments of the body are transformed by light and shadow into unfamiliar landscapes, creating a delicate tension between intimacy and alienation, figuration and abstraction. Moving beyond the body’s physical form, her work invites us into a profound realm of existence, where the inner self and the outer world quietly resonate.
Lü Nan creates psychological landscapes in which mountains, light, architecture, and the human body converge, allowing reality and memory to permeate one another. In her paintings, images belonging to different moments and spaces overlap, while landscapes once encountered are transformed through memory and the subconscious. The resulting spaces retain traces of the familiar world, yet possess an elusive, dreamlike quality. As the viewer’s gaze moves between shifting forms and spatial dimensions, external landscapes dissolve into the flow of consciousness, gradually blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination. Her work evokes an inner world where memories settle into layers over time, and perception and the subconscious continually intersect.
Drawing upon her encounter with blue ice in Antarctica, Zuo Er reflects on the purity and sacredness of nature, contemplating a sense of time that extends far beyond the scale of human existence. Formed over immense spans of time, the ice embodies a temporal dimension that cannot be fully grasped through human experience. The profound blue she once witnessed remains etched in her memory, not merely as a colour belonging to a landscape, but as a presence imbued with accumulated time and profound stillness. As this memory intertwines with emotion and consciousness, it gradually transcends the physical landscape, becoming a serene and luminous image of the inner world. Her paintings transform a fleeting moment of perception into an enduring impression, quietly bringing the immensity of nature into resonance with the fragility of human existence.
Drawing upon the compositional principles and philosophical sensibilities of traditional Chinese landscape painting, Yang Xuxia reconstructs the visual world of shan shui (mountain-water painting) through familiar motifs such as fruits and pumpkins. In her paintings, everyday objects undergo fluid shifts in scale, transforming into expansive landscapes that evoke mountains, rocks, and flowing water. By discovering the vastness of nature within the smallest of forms, she transcends conventional perceptions of space and invites viewers into new realms of imagination. Through vibrant colour and a contemporary painterly language, the spirit and aesthetics of Song and Yuan dynasty landscape painting are given renewed expression. Tradition and contemporaneity, the microscopic and the monumental, come together and resonate within a single pictorial world. The inner and outer dimensions of the body, reality and memory, humanity and nature, the microscopic and the vast—each artist approaches the boundaries between the visible and the invisible from a distinct perspective. Their works resonate with one another, giving rise to new ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
What unites these four artists is not an attempt to reproduce the visible world as it appears, but a shared impulse to transform what they have seen into new images through their own memories and perceptions. Reverberations is the image left behind by fading light, a memory that continues to transform through time. Another reality, continually brought into being through the act of perception.
Reveberations – 余象, a group exhibition by Guo Jing, Lü Nan, Zuo Er, and Yang Xuxia, will run from 14 November to 13 December 2026 at Mizuma Gallery, 22 Lock Road #01-34 Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108939. The gallery will open from 11am to 7pm on Tuesdays to Saturdays, and 11am to 6pm on Sundays. The gallery will be closed on Mondays and Public Holidays.
About the Artists
Guo Jing (郭静) graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. She is currently based in Beijing, where she continues her artistic practice. She has been invited to participate in numerous exhibitions both in China and abroad, and has presented her works at many important art institutions, including the National Art Museum of China, the Poly Time Museum, the Shanshui Art Museum, the Yue Art Museum, and the King & Wood Art Center. Her works are held in the collections of many professional art institutions and private collectors. Guo Jing has established a distinctive artistic style and remains active at the forefront of contemporary art through her forward-looking concepts and innovative forms of expression.
Born in Qingdao, and graduate of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Lü Nan (吕楠) has been invited to participate in numerous exhibitions both in China and abroad. Her works are held in the collections of the Shandong Art Museum, the Poly Time Museum, as well as many private and professional collectors in China and overseas. Her artistic practice extends beyond two two-dimensional painting to encompass sculpture, photography, video, multimedia, and other multidimensional forms of expression. In Lü Nan’s work, seemingly opposing elements elements—sensibility and reason, the classical and the futuristic, science and mysticism— constantly coexist. It is precisely these contradictions that shape her distinctive pictorial language and artistic temperament, allowing her to interpret the world with a philosophical sense of poetry.
An artist from Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yang Xuxia (杨旭霞) grew up surrounded by rich natural landscapes from an early age, cultivating a deep sensitivity toward nature and scenery. In 2006, she entered the Chinese Painting Department at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, majoring in landscape painting, and received her bachelor’s degree in 2010. In 2012, she entered the graduate program in Chinese flower flower-and -bird painting at the same academy, where she studied under Professor Li Hongzhao , and received her master’s degree in 2015.
Zuo Er (左儿) graduated from the University for the Creative Arts. Born in Beijing. Her art centers on black black-and -white abstract expression, exploring the opposition and integration of black and white, as well as philosophical contemplation. Black creates darkness within light, while white contains light within the darkness of night. Although the two stand in contradiction, they are mutually dependent, forming abstract compositions that transform freely.
