Zhu Men-Zen: B1: Solo Exhibition

For Zhu Men-Zen, if everyday life is the "living room", then creation is the basement, B1. Situated beneath the comfort of daily routines, B1 is a private, latent zone where the unknown, the hazardous, and the experimental quietly coexist.

It can be both a refuge and a point of departure. The artist's most resonant image of B1 draws from Ai Yazawa's Nana, a basement crowded with garments where characters speak of dreams and ideals, allowing raw, unfiltered sounds to ferment in the dark. Earlier this year, Zhu concluded her final solo exhibition as a student and carried forward experiments in which sketches and graphite surfaced through the painted strata.

In B1 these as-yet-unfixed traces continue to expand and persist. It is an exhibition for late hours, lit by a single yellow lamp, where the artist probes and revises at the desk in quiet persistence.