This exhibition brings together the sculptural practices of Qi Zhuo, Hua Wang, and Zhang Qiang—three artists who explore the intricate interplay between material and meaning. Delicate Balances examines how fragility and strength, opacity and transparency, tradition and innovation coexist within their work, often suspended in a quiet state of tension.
Balance in this exhibition is both formal and conceptual. It appears in the physical equilibrium of the sculptures—Qi Zhuo’s weightless glass and resin compositions, Hua Wang’s teetering ceramic stacks, and Zhang Qiang’s poised metal fauna—and in more elusive contrasts: absence and presence, intimacy and distance, nature and interpretation.
Qi Zhuo works with glass and resin to evoke fleeting states of being. Transparency and fragility are not merely visual qualities but essential elements of meaning. These serene, hovering forms play with visibility and concealment, holding space for memory, perception, and the threshold between what is felt and what is seen.
Hua Wang reimagines domestic ceramics—cups, vessels, tableware—as charged metaphors for human connection. In works like Dangerous Liaisons, precariously stacked cups evoke the instability of relationships; in The Unspoken, enclosed forms hint at silent exchanges and emotional restraint. Her ceramics balance historical familiarity with contemporary vulnerability.
Zhang Qiang sculpts stylized animal figures in metal, a material of strength and permanence. Yet, he introduces tension by elongating limbs and perching these creatures on delicate supports, creating a visual fragility at odds with the medium. His Animal Master series invites reflection on the boundary between instinct and artifice, form and essence, wildness and control.
Across these practices, Delicate Balances reveals how material decisions carry emotional, symbolic, and philosophical weight. Together, the artists invite us to look closely—at surfaces, structures, and the spaces in between—to discover how meaning emerges not in resolution, but in poised and deliberate tension.
