The exhibition title "Carefree Days" is taken from Ban Yu’s novel of the same name.

The short stories of Ban Yu are often set in Shenyang——the city he lives, depicting the daily stories of ordinary people under the history of the significant decline in Northeast China. He does not consume the reality in his writing but uses the first-person perspective to narrate the real world out of pure kindness. He extraordinarily tells ordinary stories and creates a complex and poetic narrative with spoken language, thereby creating a literary, poetic reality. 

His writing echoes the paintings of Bi Jianye, Gong Jian, Huang Liang, Li Dafang, Qi Wenwen, Qin Qi, Qiu Ruixiang, Song Yuanyuan, Tang Dayao, Wang Xingjie, Wang Yilong, Xiao Jiang, Xu Cheng, and Zhang Yexing. This exhibition juxtaposes these two art categories in the same space, making them backgrounds of each other, presenting the interstice between literature and paintings, thus creating the possibility of resonance. It is necessary to read the book while surrounded by paintings, or after reading the book, then look back at the paintings to form an echo relationship between literature and paintings and constitute a complete exhibition reading.