昼与夜

喜在空间将于2025年9月13日开启姚朋的个展《昼与夜》，持续至2025年10月26日。本次展览是艺术家在国内的第五个个展，展览以近期绘画为主，大致分成三部分：“记忆是一个人的影像”，“欲望盒子”，“梦”。姚朋持续从图像研究出发，此次更专注于在画面上如何精准抵达内在能量转化为外在显现的转瞬时刻。这种能量小至一个闪念，大到星系间的膨胀与塌缩，在两极间最终照应回现实。艺术家从2011年开始了对图像语言进行创作实践，早期他借用了“邮票”这一具有社会宣传作用的形式，对政治、历史图像进行解构和重组，在方寸间以绘画为入口进行尝试。后来，姚朋持续围绕图像阅读展开，随之艺术媒介和呈现有了不同程度的变化，作品中出现的个体样本从典型性的到边缘化的到没有明确身份的，如推理小说式地展开对整体形象模糊的个体的虚实描绘。姚朋是习惯性地细节控，本次展览中他在宇宙星辰、城市欲望、肢体微语言之间抓取一种刹那间动态能量转换时的共振通感。宇宙中三个星体之间的运行关系，我们从地表观看便成为日升月落。这黑暗与光明的转换瞬间，在创作者的想象中可孕育无限能量和可能。单细胞开始裂变，生命降临时双眼的睁开，落地啼哭后的第一声妈妈……欲望之盒随声波的震动开启。图像在工具不断升级中，爆炸式地进攻着我们的视网膜，五窍被加倍速刺激。在姚朋画面中的图像里，没有充挤着太多的具体视觉指向，不为满足某些塞满式的观看渴求，反而相对节制。观众不是一下子就能获取到作品的全部信息，而是设置了互相捕捉的过程，可对创作中的情感留白进行联想补偿。绘画中的身体局部的放大，空间大场景的模糊，对有些图像进行再次遮蔽，荒诞而带有隐喻。画面停格在事件即将发生前的瞬间和欲言又止之处，和悬置的结局共同拉伸出心理上的张力。在明暗昼夜之间，象开启的时空通道，幽暗的光如梦境般似是而非，在遥远处被看见却无法真正意义上的抵达，神秘而混沌。

XZ SPACE is pleased to present Yao Peng's solo exhibition “Dawn and Dusk”, from September

13 to October 26, 2025. This exhibition marks the artist's fifth solo show in China, primarily featuring recent paintings organised into three sections: “Memory is the images within one's mind”, “Box of Desires”, and “Dream”. Yao Peng continues his exploration of imagery. This time, he focuses on how to precisely capture the fleeting moment when inner energy transforms into outward manifestation. This energy can be as tiny as a flash of thought or as large as the expansion and collapse of galaxies, and ultimately returns to reality between the two poles. The artist began his artistic practice centered on visual language in 2011. In his early work, Yao Peng adopted the format of “stamps”—a medium traditionally associated with social propaganda—to deconstruct and reconstruct political and historical imagery. Within the miniature scale of the stamp format, he used painting as an entry point for artistic experimentation. Later, Yao Peng's practice continued to revolve around the reading of images, accompanied by varying evolutions in medium and presentation. The individual specimens appearing in the work—ranging from the typical to the marginalised, to those without clear identity—unfold like a detective novel, weaving a blend of fact and fiction around figures whose overall image remains blurred. Yao Peng is habitually particular about details. In this exhibition, he captures a kind of synaesthetic resonance within the fleeting moment of dynamic energy transformation, drawing from cosmic planets, urban desires, and micro-gestures. The relative motions of three celestial bodies in the universe, can be seen from the surface of the earth as sunrise and moonfall. This transition between darkness and light, in the artist's imagination, can give birth to infinite energy and possibilities. From the fission of a single cell, to the opening of eyes as one arrives in the world, to the first cry of "Mama" after birth...the box of desires opens with the vibrations of sound waves. Images, with the continuous advancement of tools, explosively assault our retinas, hyper-

stimulating our five senses at an accelerated pace. Yao Peng's paintings are not packed with explicit visual elements. They do not seek to satisfy a craving for saturated viewing; instead, they embody a sense of restraint. The audience does not immediately grasp all the information of the work; rather, the viewing initiates a process of mutual discovery, allowing viewers to imaginatively fill the emotional gaps left by the artist. The enlargement of body parts, the blurring of vast spatial scenes, and the re-concealment of certain images result in an absurd and metaphorical composition. The frame freezes at the instant before the event is about to happen and at the point where words are held back, which together with the suspended ending stretches the psychological tension. Between the light and dark, day and night, like an opened space-time channel, the dim light resembles a dream, seemingly real but unattainable. It can be seen from afar, yet it is impossible to truly reach, mysterious and chaotic.