Chen Hongzhi's solo exhibition, Theatre of Silence will be opening on 23 October, 2025, at Leo Gallery. Following his group exhibition Layers of Beings: Image and Soul at our Shanghai space earlier this year. This solo exhibition extended his artistic brushstrokes and showcases the artist's works from 2018 to the present. From the large swathes of black in 2018 to highlight individuals, to the subsequent dramatic reduction of the proportion of the crowd. Faces on the canvas appear either concealed or blurred, with overlapping hues of human silhouettes extending into vast spaces. The contradictory relationship between figures, reality, and nothingness constitutes the theatre constructed by the artist—a theatre for the figures within the paintings, and even more so, the theatre where we are at.
Gallery address: G/F, 46 Sai Street, Sheung Wan