Female art exhibition shows power of opportunity

The exhibition also features a reading room section entitled Writing Her Power－Women's Situation and Writing, displaying books from 20 publishing houses on themes including female power, self-identity and relationships.

Zhu says that setting up a reading room has been a recurring feature at her previous exhibitions, because books have played a major role in her learning of gender theory.

Artist Wen Qiwen has been invited to create works of paper art entitled Go With the Flow for the reading room, with paper-made jellyfish hanging in the space. Wen believes the relationship between jellyfish and water is a metaphor for the one between humans and society.

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