Asia Society Hong Kong Center, in collaboration with INKstudio, is proud to present Bing Yi: Taihang Rhapsody, the latest contemporary ink art solo exhibition by art historian and artist Bingyi.

The exhibition is presented as the long-lost artworks of Hua, the fictional Northern Song Matriarch of Painting, rediscovered and "archaeologically excavated" by the artist Bingyi from a Song Dynasty temple site in the Taihang Mountains – partly based on historical clues and partly on personal imagination. In Bingyi's series of speculative reconstructions, Hua is not only a pioneering female artist in Chinese art history but also a visionary philosopher and political thinker. Independent of the great masters of the Song Dynasty landscape painting and the subsequent male literati painting tradition, Hua created an alternative aesthetic system that de-centered the patriarchal, Confucian, brush- and ego-centered mode of literati landscape painting and re-centered the expressive possibilities of brush-and-ink on water, on Taoism, on nature, and on the creative experiences of women.

Venue address: Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society Hong Kong Centre, Admiralty