Unbelievably Soft Process

Solo show
Tant Yunshu Zhong
Tabula Rasa Gallery Beijing
10 May – 21 June 2025

Tabula Rasa Gallery is pleased to announce Unbelievably Soft Process, a solo exhibition by Tant Yunshu ZHONG, at our Beijing space. This marks her fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, following her 2023 London show, Where Does a Moving Person Sleep at Night? 


ARTIST STATEMENTExploring Dimensions: The Shift from Plane to Volume

1. Raindrops fall from the clouds, merge into rivers, evaporate, completing the cycle.
   
   
2. The process of an unveiling ceremony often involves momentary imaginings – towards the imagination of the hidden, there is a collective anticipation towards the future, forming a truth that is yet to be revealed. The curtain concealing this forthcoming is real, three-dimensional and ready to reveal a ‘new beginning’: What is unveiled might be a tombstone, a commemorative plaque, an oil painting, a sculpture, a stage, an entrance, a burst of cheering, or a sudden downpour. The scene is filled with endless possibilities, yet remains mysterious, not obscured by complexity, but rather infused with surreal sense of perception, evenly spread across the experience.
   
   
3. The very presentation of spatiality attempts to mirror an exploration of volume and the unknown when humanity is confined to flatness and singularity. We chase sensations that are loftier, deeper, and vaster - sculpting depth onto faces, infusing monotony with richness, transforming windows into screens, and crafting aircraft to turn the sky into a place to be. Architecture steps out of blueprints, using walls to divide space into interior and exterior, giving rise to illusory in-between zones. Tangible forms hidden in crevices continuously resist the external body. Flesh and blood navigate through this network and become subjects of discussion.
   
   
4. The exhibition as a whole seeks to probe the liminal state between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, exaggerating the poetic existence of everyday objects, and searching for a sense of history and ephemerality through the construction of ‘bridges’ and ‘necklaces’.
   

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tant Yunshu ZHONG (b.1990, Wuhan, China) lives and works in Shanghai, China. Zhong’s artistic practice focuses on the moments within everyday flow that can be used for resistance and questioning. These frozen moments may be simple, elegant, slightly comedic, or even absurd. There is no precise boundary in her assemblages; they are dispersed yet mutually constrained. She excels at linking, arranging, combining, and constructing multiple associations between different objects and words. She skillfully places the contradictions hidden within organic life. The state of her works seems to want to return to some fundamental rules and rhythms while faintly attempting to break them.  
 
Her recent solo exhibitions include: Unbelievably Soft Process，Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing,2025); Where Does a Wanderer Seek Rest at Night?, Tabula Rasa Gallery (London, 2023); Having a good night’s sleep, LISTE Basel (Basel, 2023); A Kitchen Blessing, LINSEED (Shanghai, 2022); The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2020); The Endless Spring, J: Gallery (Shanghai, 2016); Tissue and Tissue Paper, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2016); Lead, Lead, Lead, Surplus Space (Wuhan, 2016).  

Recent group exhibitions include: Awakening, XZ SPACE (Beijing, 2025); Improvisation, Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing, 2024); The Theater of Mimicry, Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong, 2024); Drawer inside the Bar Lines, Power Station of Art, Emerging Curators Project (Shanghai, 2024); ....., Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, 2024); Righteous Market, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2024); Expeditionary Botanics, Longmarch Independent Space (Beijing, 2024);  Contemporary Myths and Artifacts (Stockholm, 2023); Tabula Rasa: Unveiled, No.9 Cork Street (London, 2023); Tongue in Cheek, Dangxia Art Space (Beijing, 2022); The Rearview Landscape, or a Trip of Ownership, UCCA Dune (Beidaihe, 2022); On Behalf Of, Qiao Space (Shanghai, 2021); El Lissitzky’s Rooms, Surplus Space (Wuhan, 2020); Treasure Island Phantoms, CLC Gallery Venture (Beijing, 2019); The Force Temple, Tank Shanghai (Shanghai, 2019), among others.