EXHIBITIONSGenealogy Study of Artists No.14 Ding Hongdan: Afraid

Start Museum is pleased to present duo summer exhibition – “13+1 — Genealogy Study of Artists Season 1” and “Genealogy Study of Artists No.14 Ding Hongdan: Afraid” On 18 June 2023.

Ding Hongdan’s paintings can be seen as a unique sample of the how young artists of today absorb and use visual materials. Her paintings based on visual materials drawn from her personal life, internet images and comics to construct a female’s multiple reflections on her daily routines and social relationships. From her works, we can get a glimpse of the aspirations and contradictions of individual identity, self-perception and bodily autonomy of Chinese women today. The exhibition presents the artist’s latest works from 2022 to 2023, which includes a large scale diptychs that show the mirroring possibilities of life, as well as a series of female portraits that has inspirited by visual style from movie The Matrix, which demonstrating Ding Hongdan’s wild and imaginative creation particularities.