To the Things Themselves: From Myth to the Everyday

Leo Gallery is honored to present the year-end group exhibition To the Things Themselves: From Myth to the Everyday. The exhibition brings together a selection of works by artists Anna Nezhnaya, Brad Brown, Cécile Lempert, Chen Hongzhi, Giulio Frigo, Li Qunli, Mel Davis, Milène Sanchez, Sui Changjiang, Wang Hailin, Xu Dawei, Zhang Ning, Zhang Jian-Jun, and Zhao Yiqian. Through their distinctive visual languages, each artist contributes a unique annotation to such poetics.

The exhibition To the Things Themselves: From Myth to the Everyday seeks to recall a mode of "naïve looking." Within this space, the habitual inquiry into meaning is suspended, focusing the gaze upon the image itself so that things may be perceived before they are conceptualized. Viewers are invited to dwell upon the texture of materials, the contour of forms, and the resonant intervals within visual rhythm-thereby restoring those purely vivid sensory impressions that precede interpretation.