At his first solo exhibition, Yan Xing will present the two works: “They Are Not Here”(2010) and “REALISM”(2011). Yan Xing uses a wide variety of media, including performance, video, and photography, to create multi-layered projects. “They Are Not Here” will feature photographs and video documentation of a project in which Yan Xing placed seven men in a hotel room to spend an afternoon together. Yan Xing tried to challenge existing systems of daily life and encouraged the audience to reflect on the co-existence of various forms and levels of presence and existence. His most recent art project, “REALISM”, contains elements of performance, sculpture, photography and installation. A huge plaster sculpture stands in the scene constructed by the artist, reflecting his inner desires. Together with seven actors, Yan Xing will enact a two-hour long performance at the opening of the exhibition. A series of processes, including calculation, description, rehearsal, occupation and negotiation, will enable them to realise his intention to plead to an imagined reality. Through this performance, which is full of discrepancies and repetition, opposition and union, complexity and simplicity, Yan Xing wishes to encourage a thorough discussion of the mechanisms of art history generation. This is also an embodiment of Yan Xing’s sincere and steadfast desire to achieve “the creation of a reality without any difference”, and his crazed persistence to realise “the full accomplishment of the unavoidable mistake”.