The show is curated by Dr. Clémentine Deliss, Curator at Large, KANAL-CentrePompidou, Brussels / Guest Professor, KANAL-CentrePompidou at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels / Global Humanities Professor in Historyof Art, University of Cambridge / Metabolic Museum-University.

Xie Nanxing is a key figure in contemporary Chinese painting, known for a practice that persistently navigates the unstable boundary between abstraction and figuration. Born in Chongqing in 1970, he graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, where his early engagement with painting was shaped by questions of perception, repetition, and painterly structure. Rather than constructing fixed images, Xie treats painting as a temporal process—one that unfolds through fragmentation, rhythmic brushwork, and subtle shifts in form. 

Across his work, repetition functions not as duplication but as variation, allowing images to hover between recognition and dissolution. His paintings resist stable narrative or symbolic closure, instead foregrounding the act of seeing itself. Perception, for Xie, is neither transparent nor neutral; it is a site of tension, delay, and continual transformation.

Ju Ting was born in Shandong in 1983, and currently lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a BA in 2007, and with a master in 2013. Ju Ting’s practice can hardly be simplified as abstract painting, although she has clearly excluded representational content from her work. Yet the layers of color and the various forces applied to them both by hand and by tool have visualized an indescribable, even obscure reality, a material reality presented through systematic explorations marked by constant uncertainty.