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Date: 
Thursday, 22 June 2017 to Saturday, 5 August 2017
Opening: 
Thursday, 22 June 2017 - 6:00pm

Klein Sun Gallery is pleased to announce Ji Zhou: Real Illusion, the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery,

on view from June 22 through August 5, 2017.

Using photography as his main medium, Beijing-based artist Ji Zhou’s most recent series of works chronicles the

daily changes of light, texture, and activity within natural and urban scenes. By documenting instances of a place

throughout the day and recompiling them, the circadian rhythm is collapsed creating a single atemporal image. As

a result, we are presented with information that is both factual and illusory, similar to Claude Monet’s Rouen

Cathedral Series (1892 - 1894) and Vincent Van Gogh’s Haystacks (1888).

With Building 3 (2017), Ji Zhou illustrates a reconstruction of a cityscape. He creates a collage by overlapping

images of the same scene, each portrayed under a different degree of illumination. These segments of reality form

the truest illusion, which embodies the core idea that inhabits this group of work: an inspection into our

methodology of observing and forming conclusive judgments upon given information.

Evolved from Ji Zhou’s series Ashes (2011) - photographs of landscapes and interior scenes covered in thick ash

created by an accidental fire at the artist’s studio - his current wallpaper and photo installation, Plants covered in

Dust (2016), utilizes both positives and negatives of the same image to create a juxtaposed version of black and

white plants covered in soot. The installation challenges the audience's perception of what they are truly seeing,

much like his fragmented collages. His use of framed images within the installation invites us to reexamine how we

observe what we see in these crafted duplicates of the wallpaper. Through creating this reality-based illusion of our

world, instead of offering an explanation, Ji Zhou raises questions for which the best possible response for the

viewer is to simply leave these questions unanswered.

 

Telephone: 
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525W 22nd st. New York . New York. 10011 

Klein Sun Gallery , New York

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