Nick D’Alessandro + Yixiao Zhao
August 30 - September 26, 2024
︎︎︎press release
What I am offering, is a chance to trace back the origin, to the most elementary, almost fundamental form of companionship—a listener who will sit beside you, only answering when asked, for minutes, hours, days, months, years, until everything has tumbled out, until there’s no more shivering or trembling.
Nick D’Alessandro
Untitled, 2024
Drywall, joint compound, acrylic, postcard
68 × 108 × ½ in | 172.72 × 274.32 × 1 cm
Nick D’Alessandro
I came to this place to make a film, 2023
Single-channel camcorder video on iPhone
3’26’’
Yixiao Zhao
Seed, 2024
Sterling silver
2 × 3 in | 5 × 7.5 cm
Untitled, 2024
Brass
3 × 3 in | 7.5 × 7.5 cm
Nick D’Alessandro
Souvenir 01, 2024
Acrylic, marine glue, sulfur from Skkútustaðahreppur, water, bronze cast blades of grass, volcanic rock, sandblasted blown glass
Cube 22 × 23 × 25 in | 56 × 58 × 63.5 cm
Glass 5 × 8 × 11 in | 13 × 20.3 × 28 cm
Yixiao Zhao
Untitled, 2024
Darkroom print
7 × 9 in | 18 × 23 cm
Nick D’Alessandro
My hydraulic press, I love you, 2024
Linen, cotton, alum, rust, grass
131 × 79 in | 332.7 × 201 cm
Yixiao Zhao
Palimpsest: Desired Lines, 2024
Inkjet print (mounted)
23 × 28.7 in | 58 × 73 cm
In response to Hu Fang’s Dear Navigator1, artists’ collection, packing and membranes, is available in person.
1 Dear Navigator by Hu Fang, a collection of ten short stories that reflect on contemporary society, politics, and the human condition. Hu Fang is a fiction writer and cofounder of Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, and The Pavilion, Beijing. He lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing. Previously published titles include Troubled Laughter (2012), Garden of Mirrored Flowers (2010), and Pavilion to the Heart’s Insight (2008). His stories have been published in e-flux journal, Manifesta Journal, and various publications including Ming Wong: Life of Imitation, Drone Fiction, Odyssey: Architecture and Literature, and Gwangju Folly.