BANK is pleased to announce its participation in this year's Gallery Weekend Beijing. We will present an exhibition by two female artists, Patty Zhang & Zhang Yibei, in the Visiting Sector, focusing on the hidden dialogue in their creative practices.
Patty Chang's Letdown (Milk) is a photo series from 2017, documenting the artist, who has just given birth to her son, pumping excess breast milk in various containers on her way to study irrigation projects in the former Soviet Union in Uzbekistan. And Zhang Yibei's Sophia is her new series of works inspired by some imperceptible dark moments in human interactions, in which the artist transforms the a friend's story into large and small deep-sea fish that perceive ocean currents, otherness and self in sorrow.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yibei will present her performance project in the Public Sector with a huge crane. A cement pipe and three several objects of equal size, but of different materials and densities, are randomly lifted by the crane, while the remaining objects are pulled and together suspended in mid-air. In the process of lifting, they form a self-organized form in a way that pulls each other. This process, in which external forces intervene strongly and internal forces influence each other, alludes to the complex relationship between emotion and state, solidarity and dissent.
