Impulsive creativity brings body of work to urban life

Ink artist Zhang Jiangzhou shows up himself in the largest, most enthralling work at his ongoing solo exhibition in Beijing. In the short video work, titled As Ink, he seeks to present the conflicts, interactions and integration of human bodily expressions as manifested in painting and dancing.

In the video, while Zhang painstakingly layers shades onto a large piece of paper on the ground, beads of sweat accumulating on his face, Yu Jinying, a contemporary dancer, performs on the same paper, his whole body covered in ink; sometimes Zhang becomes so lost in the world of ink that he moves his brush away from the paper and onto Yu's body.