Kiang Malingue is pleased to announce a display of three sets of Zheng Bo’s “Drawing Life” works on paper on the 12th floor of its Tin Wan space. The new iterations of Drawing Life (Beginning of Spring), Drawing Life (Rain Water), and Drawing Life (Waking of Insects), all made in 2022, bind the individual works in the form of traditional Chinese art albums, emphasising the intimacy and counter-encyclopedic aspect of Zheng Bo’s drawing practice.

Since 2020, Zheng Bo has been creating an ongoing series of “Drawing Life” drawings by visiting their plant neighbors up the hills behind their village on Lantau Island and sketching them. For Zheng Bo, drawing means spending time getting to know the plants. They describe how this peaceful practice “feels like a meditation.” The title of the series inverts the conventional artistic practice of life drawing in which people are depicted, signaling instead how Zheng Bo focuses their attention beyond the human.

Gallery address: 12/F, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Aberdeen