“Ultimate Conjecture,” a new exhibition of abstract paintings by Zhou Qinshan, Shi Jiongwen and Cai Qian, is being held at Zhi Art Museum.

Curators Gan Ting and Jiang Yiyi said that the exhibition is not meant to present the answers of our thinking, but to stimulate the imagination and the extension of unfinished problems. “We call the three female artists’ works ‘linear experimentalism’ because they not only solve metaphysical problems in their creation, but more directly, evoke the final conjecture of the viewer through creation.”

The lines in Zhou’s painting are equivalent to “sound.” It is the primary purpose of her abstract creation to cancel the narrative function of the image and only keep the synchronization of thinking and records. Shi’s “line” is intuition and sensibility. It is a trajectory that flows directly from the mind. Her creations, like spider webs, show her inner experience and life feelings in an extremely microscopic and meticulous way.

Cai’s thinking on machines prompted her to respond it directly in her artistic creations. It is this complete liberation of hands and the trust in the machine that builds the foundation of her purely abstract art which is full of industrial style and structure sense.

Dates: Until Jan. 13, 2019

Venue: Zhi Art Museum, Shasong Road, Houting, Shajing, Bao’an District (宝安区沙井后亭沙松路至美术馆)

Metro: Line 11 to Houting Station (后亭站), Exit A(SD News)