Despite the influence and restriction of the “capitalistic environment” on art production, or the great impact on art investment market brought by the financial tsunami that comes thick and fast, a group usually labeled as “weak and fragile” is going to appear in a new gesture: Secret Garden, a group exhibition of works by five female artists will be launched at Feizi Gallery on May 22nd. Standing aloof from the general category of the so-called “art group”, the five participating female artists join hands this time in this purely female exhibition not to repeat the “inferiority and pessimism” of feminism, but to display a most subtle female world through their conscientious artworks, and share the secret garden with you. In the curator (also one of the participating artists) Dong Jie’s words: “The exhibition is named after Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel The Secret Garden. We don’t want to feign weakness, nor do we attempt to parade superiority. We just wish to express the finest thoughts and feelings deep inside our hearts via our art and our ways of behavior, thus unmask the true inner world of women.”
The participating artists are now in busy preparation for the exhibition. When it opens, the show will definitely make an “unusually gentle” impact on the viewers. The five artists will exhibit their works in different art forms including oil paintings, images and installations. What they and “She” have in common is a true and sincere creative intention and vision. And the gist of each artist’s works is also convincing, just as how Wu Jiangtao explains her works: “They are indeed vivacious and lovable, innocent and unaffected, sometimes melancholy and lost in reveries, and sometimes turning fiendish and aggressive all of a sudden. They are truly interesting.” With artists of such sensitive emotions and keen insights, how can the exhibition not be absorbing? When the clouds are scattered, the green mountains will surface.

By Chen Xiaori