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The four artists in this exhibition now live and work at a distance from their hometowns in the narrow sense — their places of birth.
In his paintings, Duan Jianwei gently spreads out a time and space imbued with a broad impression of the Central Plains. He carefully refines the everyday narratives of farmers in the fields; when figures and landscapes achieve a state of perfect equilibrium on the canvas, hometown becomes a silent enigma, like nature itself.
Rooted in the artist’s genuine perception, he methodically reveals the simple, immense, and silent relationship between human beings and their native soil, while placing himself within it. If many artists only return home occasionally, Duan Jianwei seems to continuously organize the memories and order of his hometown during the rest of his life, and slowly reconstruct them in painting.
Another kind of hometown is tied to language. He Xun’s Still Life series is a carefully reserved space of linguistic sensibility, set apart from his broad visual vocabulary in painting. Silent objects here gain mouths and ears, yet this is never an overflow of personal emotion projected onto things.