From December 17, 2011 to February 26, 2012, Beijing Center for the Arts is proud to present a major exhibition of Lin Tianmiao, the most internationally renowned female artist in China's art community. Entitled "The Same", the exhibition will include 15 eye-popping and imagination-challenging installations created in the past two years, marking the artist's largest solo show.

Different from other artists in our time who mainly resort to such artistic means as painting and sculpture, Lin has been known for making thread a major artistic language in her installation since mid '90s. Her works that feature incredible fineness and unusual coolness are of a bold, fashionable and superior nature, and constitute a visual expression that minded her personal reflection on the collective experience and universal mentality of contemporary China. Over all these years, her works have been collected by world's top museums and artistic organizations including the New York MoMA, the San Francisco MoMA, the Singapore Art Museum, and the Canberra National Museum, etc.

"The Same" will present hundreds of animal and human bones, metal gadgets and wood that are wrapped by colorful silk thread, or fully covered with gold leaves.By wrapping, splitting, hanging, recombining and any other artistic technique you may think of, the artist will perform magic with these little labor-bearing and luxurious "elves" to bring to the art center a completely new look and atmosphere.

Concentrated with the Lin's twenty years of artistic practice, "The Same" is an all-round reflection of her personal experience of and meditation on human life, sentiment, spiritual world and their relations to nature and the universe; a provocative visual display of the suffering, confusion and struggling deep down in the inner world of humankind.