Impulsive creativity brings body of work to urban life

Since 2022 Zhang has created a series of paintings to glimpse into the life attitudes of urban youths. In those paintings, also shown at the exhibition, he has used a lot of red and varying hues of pink and purple, and depicted, in an exaggerated manner, elongated human bodies so that they seem to float in midair.

"Red is associated with the primitive pulse of life. It symbolizes power and hope," Zhang says.

It shows that youths are indulged in the colorful metropolitan life and the pleasures of consumption culture, and on the other hand, they are lost under huge pressure from workplaces and living costs.