Fragments as Units of the Night, 2025
Zhang Lingrui (b.1994) was born in Hefei, China. Zhang graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing, China) and Royal College of Art (London, UK) in 2017 and 2020, with a bachelor degree and master degree respectively. Zhang currently works and lives in Beijing.
Zhang Lingrui regards his work as a relic of a tug of war between order and chaos. From the perspective of details in painting, in addition to being bricks and tiles that construct images, the physical traces they leave on the canvas are also stagnant states at different time points as the main subject. As Cy Twombly said, ‘Every line reflects its own history, and even without an explanation, it remains a materialistic event of its own.’ As for the objects depicted by Zhang, most of them go through the process of self-dissolution and concealment of specific identity characteristics, as well as the game between external form and perspective mismatch.