On occasion of his first solo show at Platform China HK, Zhou Yilun (1983) creates a site-specific installation inspired by space and society’s obsessed quest for technology improvements to reach outer space. Reflecting on his personal response and attitude towards the world he lives in, Yilun arranges a series of objects and accessories as if taken from science fiction movies to create one unique landscape where subject and content merge together with the drawings and paintings on display.

Who takes us to outer space” now that we, people on Earth are capable to fly into space, artisanship has been replaced by technology, kings replaced by businessmen, and art has long been abandoned. All that is left is a yearning for beautiful old times. So, never mind what we have to give up to and what we shall keep. There are no rules, and what we will give up has been already given up, and what we will keep forever has already been kept.”  (Zhou Yilun, April 2013)

Considering painting and making art as a playful activity, Zhou Yilun epitomizes a sense of disjunction with traditional pictorial language and gives birth to compositions born from a processing of visual information and mass media, reinterpreted in a new format.

The show is part of the larger project titled “Jungle II” developing over the course of one year at both Platform China Beijing and Hong Kong. “Jungle II” seeks to redefine, investigate, and document process of creating art and invent a new methodology of exhibiting, through a number of exhibitions and events including round-table discussions and screenings, which will be all documented as an archive.