Zhang Yibei’s work Helmet is currently on display at Copperfield Gallery’s exhibition “Calling things that don't have names”. Zhang Yibei takes a more intuitive approach to natural and domestic materials, often including and manipulating found objects. Beyond a sense of spirituality or the occult, there is often also a sensuality in these works, with vessels being a recurring theme.
From ‘wise women’ to ‘witches’, humanity has always held a powerful thread of female knowledge and intuition no matter how much it was hidden, beaten back or ostracised. Calling things that don't have names explores some of the ways in which a kind of contemporary female mysticism maintains and expands this knowledge through art practice.
2024.10.06 – 2024.11.23
