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Zhuo Qi, Bubble-Game, 2022, Stone sculpture and blown glass, 90 x 27 x 25 cm, ©PARIS-B
The booth of PARIS-B would be featuring the works of two chinese artists : Fu Site and Zhuo Qi, both represented permanently by the gallery.
Fu Site’s pictorial language borrows the codes of the oneiric world, to give life to scenes that open the field of interpretation By subtly combining fragmented images and overlapped narrative layers, Fu Site knows how to provoke a certain ambiguity on our perception of time, depriving the scene of any logical coherence.
Zhuo Qi fuels his artistic practice with the daily experience of the semantic and linguistic miracles generated by cultural gap and its long history of misunderstandings. Through his sculptures, Zhuo Qi aims for a shape that will make one smile, provoke astonishment, a shape that will fit the most the subject it is attached to. Those subjects are reproductions of antic chinese sculptures that the artist collects whenever he visits China. Often damaged by time, these sculptures are broken, fractured or dismembered. Zhuo Qi tries his best to fix them, in his own special way, by adding blown glass to the broken parts. By doing so, he successfully marries two materials that are radicaly different : softness is mixed with toughness, ancient hugs modern.