If someone says you are a monkey, you might be unhappy, but you are, after all, an animal, right? No matter how smart and elegant you are, you are essentially only a "naked ape" – an ape without hair – can’t we say so? It is actually very similar between a naked ape and a hairy ape. When you know man is "naked ape", how do you see yourself? And how do you see the large crowd "naked apes” around you?

Platform China Contemporary Art Institute is pleased to hold Jin Shan Solo Show - Naked Ape on the 29th August 2009.

Jin Shan uses his keen artistic intuition, throws out the world's non-rational visual pictures in front of us. However, what brings to us while watching his works is the truth that we do not dare to speak out but deeply felt in our everyday life. The emotionless between people, the horror after peeping at each other’s desires, and people’s crazy dances at the playground that is built on a wire rope are all pouring into our deeply slept mind. Naked Ape is the word that be quoted by Jin Shan from British famous zoologist and human ethologist Desmond Morris. The artist uses the way of art to make a merciless but over-rational expression to the original truth of human society that has been overshadowed by the surface.