Xiao Zhiyu's Exhibition at Fuoricampo Blends Painting and Text

At Fuoricampo gallery in Siena, Chinese artist Xiao Zhiyu (b. 1995) presents a solo exhibition that merges painting with written language. The show focuses on works where text takes center stage, accompanied by a poem by Marco Arrigoni. Xiao's practice reduces visual fleetingness to its essence, aiming to free the image from its signifier. The white-cube setting suspends words between reading and pictorial aesthetics, engaging the viewer's conscious memory. The temporal oscillation between observation and creation creates a false present, referencing Derrida's concept of différance. Works mimic books and screens, alluding to daily digital archiving, sublimated through Xiao's experimental yet technically precise and tonally delicate painting.