Kiang Malingue is pleased to present at its Hong Kong location “Play Gravity”, Yirui Jia’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Yirui Jia was born in China in 1997 and moved to the US in 2015. She graduated with a BFA from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania in 2019 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2022. In the last five years, Jia has presented a series of boisterous, multilayered paintings driven by unplanned cadenza and relentless overpainting, building a highly theatricalised world that is colourful and exuberant, communicating between intuition and lived experience. She understands painting as a process of impulse and detour, commanding recurring characters such as an alien-like skeleton and a heroic one-eyed bride who freely changes into a warrior, an astronaut, or an untamed femme fatale.

Gallery addreee: 10 Sik On Street, Wanchai