Where Paintings Embrace: Jilan Wu’s First Solo Exhibition at A PICK GALLERY
- Redazione
- May 28
- 2 min read
A PICK GALLERY is pleased to present Where Paintings Embrace, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by Jilan Wu, an artist selected as part of the Premio Combat 2024, whose jury included the gallery itself. The exhibition opens on Tuesday 4 June 2025 and will remain on view until 28 June, showcasing a series of new paintings on canvas, along with a selection of ceramic works being presented for the first time.
Jilan Wu’s pictorial practice is marked by an intimate and sensitive approach to human relationships, explored through a visual language that bridges personal memory and universal emotion. Born in 1990 in Gui Zhou, China, and now based in Bologna, the artist creates a visual space where intimacy blends with ambiguity and melancholy is infused with tenderness.
The works on display feature a layered, vibrant, and sensorial painting style dominated by warm tones — reds, oranges, and pastel pinks — that illuminate the surface with an inner light, evoking memories, dreams, and desires. Particularly in the Abbracci series, there is a visceral expression of the need for contact and closeness, emerging from lived experiences of distance and separation. Wu’s more recent pieces also reveal a richer materiality in her use of colour and a stronger narrative tension.
The introduction of ceramics marks a significant development in the artist’s practice, bringing in a three-dimensional aspect that retains the tactile and bodily qualities of her work. These fragile, irregular forms highlight gestures, voids, and the inherent vulnerability of human connection.
Drawing on influences from Chagall, the Fauves, and the contemporary sensibility of Yoshitomo Nara, Wu constructs a deeply personal visual universe in which the body becomes a medium for expressing the imperfect beauty of relationships.
Where Paintings Embrace
4 – 28 June 2025
Jilan Wu
A PICK GALLERY
Via Bernardino Galliari 15/C, 10125 Turin
Tuesday-Saturday 3.30-8 pm
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