All appearances are illusory! Where do others come from? What is happiness?

One of the two exhibitions at the Jingwei Art Center's spring season. Compared to the bright and bold style of the American 🇺🇸 artist next door, focusing on women and life themes, this Chinese artist places more emphasis on religion and introspection. Although the colors are also very bright and lively, the lines are soft and the brushwork delicate. The exhibition title is inspired by Susan Sontag's (American) 2003 book "Regarding the Pain of Others." In "Regarding the Happiness of Others," "happiness" is no longer simply regarded as a positive term but attempts to strip away its inherent emotional color to present a more neutral meaning. To observe, to be an impartial observer, form is emptiness, emptiness is form... all phenomena are empty in nature, neither arising nor ceasing, neither defiled nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing... distancing from deluded dreams, and indifferent to whether others suffer or are happy. 🎈Exhibition Title: Regarding the Happiness of Others 📈Exhibition Dates: 2025.3.19–2025.5.30 ⏰Visiting Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10:30–18:00 📮Exhibition Location: 4th Floor, Suhe Haosi Building, No. 30 Wen’an Road, Jing’an District 💰Admission: Free 🆓, no reservation required 🌟Exhibition Highlights: A solo exhibition by Zeng Jianying (b.1987), featuring sixteen selected recent works. Through the combination of meticulous gongbi technique and gouache medium, the exhibition explores the dual themes of bodily desire and psychological demands with delicate brushwork and metaphorical imagery, using visual narrative to sketch a certain spiritual profile within the collective unconscious.