Xu Hongxiang & Zhai Liang: The Gap Between Day and Night

ShanghART Gallery presents “The Gap Between Day and Night,” a dual solo exhibition by Xu Hongxiang and Zhai Liang, at its Suhe space in Shanghai from May 15 to June 27. Bringing together recent works by the two artists, the exhibition reveals their distinctive ways of capturing and suspending everyday surroundings and landscapes, allowing subtle events hidden beneath lived experience to be brought back into view and reconsidered.

A new night is already pressing close, while the old dusk still lingers, dragging its heavy garments behind. In After Dark, Haruki Murakami adopts a third-person perspective to unfold two parallel storylines over the seven hours between day and night, tracing the secrets and solitude of people under shifting light and shadow. In their respective modes of observation and pictorial rhythm, Zhai Jing and Xu Hongxiang similarly weave a kind of parallel narrative that resonates across different paths. Their perceptions of everyday landscapes quietly surface within the space, murmuring to one another. Their practices preserve the residual warmth of passing moments, allowing those subtle things buried beneath experience to reappear. In the elusive yet inevitable gap between “day” and “night,” they become enclaves for perception.