Opened by curators Hongqian Zhang, Huan Zhou, and co-curator Jenny Ping Lam Lin, the exhibition Field of Clarity (29 September – 5 October 2025) emerges as a refuge from the noise, distortion, and emotional turbulence of contemporary life. It invites viewers into a space of perception free from distraction, offering a quiet return to the essence of sensation.

Drawing from Eastern philosophy, ‘clarity’ is not a fixed state but a field — fluid, open, and alive. It is both an inner terrain and a visual principle, inviting presence over performance, awareness over reaction.

– Curator Hongqian Zhang

Field of Clarity brings together diverse artistic voices exploring memory, identity, and transformation. Anni Li’s To Clarify, To Cure reveals how confronting scars can awaken hidden forms of healing. Xiwen Xu’s Solitude in the Shifting Grove captures the fragile quiet of reconnecting with nature. Tongyang Sun’s 16Plants & MBTI unites psychology and sustainability through hand-painted botanical archives. Tianyun Zhao’s By Street juxtaposes the streets of Bath and Chengdu, tracing human rhythm between East and West. Wenyi Hao’s The Beast Lives Inside turns inner turmoil into mythic transformation. Haoting Wu’s Caressing the Anchor etches fleeting memory onto wool like anchors of time. Xiaoxiao Song’s I Know You Well reflects on self-recognition and the intimacy of seeing. Xiao Yang’s Spring Sewing and Spring Floating intertwine memory and the meaning of home through kite-like paintings. Hei Yeung Kwok’s The Fragmentation of the World in the Five Senses of One Body transforms Buddhist philosophy into luminous architectural drawings. Jingyun Guan’s Come into My Water immerses viewers in the duality of intimacy—both cleansing and suffocating. Ruonan Shen’s Playful and Bathtub stages women’s quiet resistance to invisible expectations. Yuan Wang’s Acceptor balances fragility and form through translucent metal sculptures. Junying Jiang’s Once Upon a Time merges animation and narrative memory. Wenqing Liang’s Shell 1 reconnects nature and human craftsmanship with poetic simplicity. Xueer Bi’s Tricolor Dreamcat plays with color shifts to evoke quiet distortion and dreamlike calm. Xueqing Liang’s Spirits channels personal frustration into raw painterly energy. Zhilin Xiang’s Esther’s Room in Boston, Massachusetts reflects the tender dislocation of diasporic life. Peiyan Xu’s Year of Creation:2021 reimagines environmental awareness through the tactile format of an artist’s book. Ziyuan Wang’s The Unseen, The Unheard invites touch to reveal hidden lives beneath the surface. Yucheng Kang’s The Embodiment of Being Drunk turns vulnerability into a metaphor for exposure. Xiyan Chen’s MetaTouch explores the language of empathy through virtual touch. Lin Cheng’s Stop the Chariot transforms trauma into collective protest. Ruohong Chen’s 1056 Hours chronicles intimacy through hourly photography.

Clarity here is fluid—something that moves between form and silence, light and memory.Each artist contributes to this quiet field, where perception becomes its own kind of creation.

– Сo curator  Jenney Ping Lam Lin

 

Together, these works trace the boundaries between memory and healing, silence and expression, reminding us that clarity often arises from the fragments we choose to confront.

Tonghe Yang – 1st Prize

As the First Prize winner of the exhibition, Tonghe Yang presents his haunting series City of the Heart, where he merges wet-plate photography with AI image synthesis. By layering nearly identical plates and coding away their overlaps, he constructs what he describes as “a false image that achieves unity through difference.”

His self-portraits, fragile, spectral, and resolute, evoke questions of gender, identity, and illusion.

I wanted to build clarity from contradiction. Through code and chemistry, I find an image of myself that isn’t fixed, it’s breathing.

– Tonghe Yang .

Drawing inspiration from Oscar Wilde’s lyricism and the transgressive intimacy of Robert Mapplethorpe and Nan Goldin, Yang’s work moves between purity and desire, image and word, body and language. His accompanying poetry album Mirror of Wisdom extends this dialogue, revealing an artist deeply attuned to both the sensual and the cerebral.

Yang received £200, a certificate of recognition, and an invitation to participate in an upcoming ArtFlow Studio exhibition.

Merit Awards

Merit Awards were received by Xiaobin Zhang and Hongru Zhang, each earning an invitation to join ArtFlow Studio’s next exhibition and continue their artistic journey with the platform.

Xiaobin Zhang’s small-scale painting appears tender at first glance — a twilight field glowing with pink-violet light. Yet the longer one lingers, the more an uncanny tension emerges. Distorted, near-facial forms press and blur into each other, embodying what the artist describes as “the estrangement of emotion.”
Through the interplay of light, contour, and psychological tension, Zhang explores the volatility of intimacy, showing how closeness can shift into alienation. The painting’s luminous surface behaves like skin under pressure, vibrating between pleasure and unease.

I wanted to paint the point where tenderness becomes almost unbearable, where feeling itself distorts the image.

– Zhang .

Working in steel, bronze, and latex, Hongru Zhang sculpts a body that is both decaying and reborn. In Embodied Form I, skeletal structures bloom outward, skin merges with metal, and fragility becomes strength.

Her work resonates as both anatomical and spiritual, serving as a metaphor for resilience, mortality, and renewal. “I see the body as a forge; each scar, each repair, is a form of rebirth,” says Hongru Zhang.

With disarming wit, Cheng Xie turns a simple question — “How do you like your fried eggs?” — into a subtle act of resistance. Her repeated photographs of everyday meals quietly challenge reductive social expectations.

These eggs look the same, but each one is slightly different. That’s how I feel when people try to define me – familiar, but never seen.

– Cheng Xie.

By reframing the mundane, Cheng Xie transforms everyday moments into a poetic act of self-definition, reminding viewers that clarity often begins with attention to the overlooked.

In Xiao Yang’s handmade kites, painted gauze stretched over wooden frames, memory takes flight. Spring Sewing depicts a Spanish town on one wing and blooming flowers on the other, while Spring Floating evokes the sensation of drifting between places, exploring how home can exist in motion. Through illustration and craft, Yang reconstructs belonging as a state of movement – fragile, yet luminous — inviting viewers to recall their own fragments of warmth and wonder carried on the wind.

Blurring the boundary between physical and virtual, Xiyan Chen’s XR installation MetaTouch reimagines the experience of touch in digital space. Utilizing tactile modules and real-time motion detection, it investigates how empathy and connection can endure and even flourish within the metaverse.

We’re rebuilding the language of touch. Virtual intimacy doesn’t have to be cold. It can be profoundly human.

– Chen.

Full Artist List

Cheng Xie, Ruonan Shen, Xiaobin Zhang, Junying Jiang, Ziyuan Wang, Yuan Wang, Haoting Wu, Lin Cheng, Tianyun Zhao, Wenyi Hao, Tonghe Yang, Peiyan Xu, Xueer Bi, Hongru Zhang, Anni Li, Jingyun Guan, Yucheng Kang, Xueqing Liang, Xiao Yang, Xiwen Xu, Ruohong Chen, Tongyang Sun, Xiaoxiao Song, Xiyan Chen, Wenqing Liang, Hei Yeung Kwok, Zhilin Xiang.

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Between Stillness and Awakening

At its core, Field of Clarity is less about silence and more about listening — attuning to the pulse beneath stillness and the subtle rhythm between image and emotion. ArtFlow Studio’s curatorial vision reminds us that true clarity does not erase complexity, but refines and illuminates it.

Through the fragile power of perception, the exhibition transforms attention into art. Through intimate visual language and nuanced perspectives, Field of Clarity explores themes of identity, memory, and the body. This showcase highlights both artists’ unique approaches while reflecting ArtFlow Studio’s ongoing commitment to supporting female artistic voices and expanding the dialogue of contemporary art.

Field of Clarity brings together diverse artistic voices exploring memory, identity, and transformation. Anni Li’s To Clarify, To Cure reveals how confronting scars can awaken hidden forms of healing. Xiwen Xu’s Solitude in the Shifting Grove captures the fragile quiet of reconnecting with nature. Tongyang Sun’s 16Plants & MBTI unites psychology and sustainability through hand-painted botanical archives. Tianyun Zhao’s By Street juxtaposes the streets of Bath and Chengdu, tracing human rhythm between East and West. Wenyi Hao’s The Beast Lives Inside turns inner turmoil into mythic transformation. Haoting Wu’s Caressing the Anchor etches fleeting memory onto wool like anchors of time. Xiaoxiao Song’s I Know You Well reflects on self-recognition and the intimacy of seeing. Xiao Yang’s Spring Sewing and Spring Floating intertwine memory and the meaning of home through kite-like paintings. Hei Yeung Kwok’s The Fragmentation of the World in the Five Senses of One Body transforms Buddhist philosophy into luminous architectural drawings. Jingyun Guan’s Come into My Water immerses viewers in the duality of intimacy—both cleansing and suffocating. Ruonan Shen’s Playful and Bathtub stages women’s quiet resistance to invisible expectations. Yuan Wang’s Acceptor balances fragility and form through translucent metal sculptures. Junying Jiang’s Once Upon a Time merges animation and narrative memory. Wenqing Liang’s Shell 1 reconnects nature and human craftsmanship with poetic simplicity. Xueer Bi’s Tricolor Dreamcat plays with color shifts to evoke quiet distortion and dreamlike calm. Xueqing Liang’s Spirits channels personal frustration into raw painterly energy. Zhilin Xiang’s Esther’s Room in Boston, Massachusetts reflects the tender dislocation of diasporic life. Peiyan Xu’s Year of Creation:2021 reimagines environmental awareness through the tactile format of an artist’s book. Ziyuan Wang’s The Unseen, The Unheard invites touch to reveal hidden lives beneath the surface. Yucheng Kang’s The Embodiment of Being Drunk turns vulnerability into a metaphor for exposure. Xiyan Chen’s MetaTouch explores the language of empathy through virtual touch. Lin Cheng’s Stop the Chariot transforms trauma into collective protest. Ruohong Chen’s 1056 Hours chronicles intimacy through hourly photography.

About ArtFlow Studio Ltd

ArtFlow Studio, a dynamic emerging art platform based in London, is dedicated to fostering experimental and diverse contemporary practices by connecting local and international artists. Known for its artist representation and forward-thinking exhibitions, the studio presents compelling shows curated by Hongqian Zhang, Huan Zhou, and co-curator Jenny Ping Lam Lin. Through intimate visual language and nuanced perspectives, Field of Clarity explores themes of identity, memory, and the body, reflecting ArtFlow Studio’s ongoing commitment to supporting female artistic voices and expanding the dialogue of contemporary art.