Platform China Contemporary Art Institute will present Ge Hui's solo exhibition "Ripple" on August 6. Inviting Wang Min'an as the academic director, the exhibition will present more than 20 of his recent works.

Ge Hui lives and works in Shanghai. This was originally an exhibition planned for the spring. Longing, passion, strangeness and abnormality are indescribably intertwined in Ge Hui's paintings. Because of the unforeseen epidemic at the beginning of the year, the artist’s workplace was generally sealed off, so he and his works were forced to stay temporarily in place. This is an extended spring, and after a short and long freeze of the accumulated heat, the exhibition “Ripple” is finally presented in midsummer.

Ge Hui’s works focus on the body and its posture, reconstructing unnatural states in different stages and perspectives. They form a contradiction with the pictures with vibrant solid colours as if to remind us that this is an unreal psychological space. Most of the works exhibited in this exhibition were completed in the past two years, and the figures show a "neutral posture" in these new works. The curved bodies are placed in an unknown setting, and we cannot know why they are there or where they are going. In a sense, we can say that they are suspended, empty gestures deprived of passion.