Xiao Zhiyu

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We are pleased to invite you on Saturday 23rd to the preview of the next exhibition at Villa Clea. For the occasion of the fourth artist residency, we invited Xiao Zhiyu to experience the spaces of the house.

“I don't think I'm among the few who have their phone memory filled with images of book pages, sheets, things read, but above all things I keep to read.

In the act of recording, I allow myself the sensation of infinite time in which I will give the right prolonged attention to the meaning of those words.

Once collected, the texts become digital images that make up the constellation of our lived or desired experiences, a symbol of the fleetingness of contemporary culture, which in the brevity of meaningful encounters finds a fragile hope in the digital archive. Xiao Zhiyu's paintings return to me a depth of encounter. That feeling of being able to appropriate the space and time necessary for true attention.

By reproducing those fragments one by one, he makes them his own and therefore mine, and grants me the calm of a real meeting experience.”

Allina

Xiao obtained his MFA in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts Helsinki after his BFA in Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. His recent activities include a solo show at SIC Space in Helsinki (September 2023) and at Helsinki Art Museum Gallery (July 2024), and the partecipation of Artissima 2023.