Since the early 1990s, Luo Qingmin has worked as an editor in the media and publishing industry in Guangzhou for fifteen years. During this time, she witnessed the development of contemporary art in China from avant-garde art. She observed, recorded, and participated in this process, and eventually chose to resign and become an artist. To Luo Qingmin, art is like the water of life, which sustains her observing, thinking, and recording which are part of her daily life. Chinese ink materials have also been a long-term focus of Luo Qingmin’s experimentation and creation. Her ink works mainly contain two themes: plants and landscapes. She takes “distance” as the starting point of her creation and reflects on individual and current social issues. Although in her fifties, Luo Qingmin is still a “young” artist. In the past few decades, she has sporadically participated in limited exhibitions. As the first solo exhibition of her artistic career, this show mainly presents a careful selection of her works in the past decade.

The exhibition also includes an expansion project based on Luo Qingmin’s personal small-scale project “Conduct in the One Square Meter of Land” several years ago. In this project, the exhibition hall is seen as an open space of practice, inviting the public to participate and explore the possibility of reshaping social relationships.