Shuo Hao → huile de vitre

For her second solo exhibition in Galerie Derouillon’s main space, Shuo Hao draws on the eight Taoist trigrams to explore the metaphysical meaning of “divine sacrifice” and to unravel its enigma.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a text by Victoria Jonathan.

In this new body of work, Shuo Hao repurposes antique furniture while reinterpreting Greek and Christian myths, along with traditional Chinese philosophical tales from the Ba Gua, to offer a new symbolic reading. The transformed objects, like Hao’s rewritten narratives, sustain the hope for harmony between emptiness and fullness, life and death.

Here, the gallery space becomes a temple and the exhibition a ritual; the displayed works become keys to this quest for balance known as yin-yang. Behind each painting and sculpture lies a combination of “trigrams” corresponding to a cardinal direction, a state of nature, a beloved being: together, they form the various transformations of nature and their synergies. Isn’t it precisely here that Hao’s use of the term “assemblage” to describe her work fully reveals its meaning?

For Hao, the very act of creation is a daily ritual, blending writing, painting, and sculpture, to which she devotes herself spiritually. The resulting images are imbued with a thaumaturgic quality; enriched by their past domestic lives, the objects are arranged and the stories rewritten to be embodied in another life.