On October 21, 2025, the Powerlong Museum in Shanghai hosted the opening ceremony of “In Praise of Loftiness”—the institution’s 8th Anniversary Contemporary Art Exhibition.

The past eight years have left increasingly vivid traces in the memory of the Powerlong Museum. The processes of incubation, refinement, and shaping have not only built a spiritual edifice for the museum, but have also come together as a shared response written by time and art.

The exhibition brings together 20 prominent Chinese contemporary artists born between the 1950s and ‘80s, each illuminating the landscape of Chinese contemporary art with their unique visual language. Their works not only present slices of their lives but also serve as visible poems reflecting the artists’ personal journeys and the evolution of their practice. Artists, in relation to art, are both witnesses and pioneers; they begin as individuals, coalesce into a collective, and ultimately extend into the broader memory of an era.

The exhibition features works by renowned artists such as Zhang Enli, Mao Yan, Zhou Chunya, and Xue Song. Amid this impressive lineup, RONG Art Space’s collaborating artist BAISHUI is also invited to participate. She presents her easel works Light and Shimmer 1 and Shimmer 5, responding to the exhibition’s theme with a delicate artistic language that captures the flow of light and the rhythm of space and time, bringing a subtle radiance and depth to the weighty collective presence.

This exhibition uses artworks as pages and time as ink, quietly recording the ways in which artists journey alongside the world. It bears witness to individual growth while subtly tracing the collective portrait of Chinese contemporary art. Perhaps this is where the power of art lies—amid the flow of time, there are still those who respond through creation, allowing thought to continue and beauty to endure.

About the artist BAISHUI
BAISHUI currently based in Shanghai and Hong Kong, is a visual and installation artist recognized as 2025 Forbes China’s Emerging Artists and 2025 Forbes China Contemporary Art Masters Selection.

Her practice embodies a vigorous creativity that transforms profound reflection into works of art imbued with experiential depth and aesthetic playfulness, while consistently cultivating a style defined by innovation, exploration, and avant-garde sensibilities. Through the integration of hand drawing and AI-assisted digital painting, collage techniques, and inventive applications of mixed media, BAISHUI creates distinctive works on canvas. Her artistic inquiry is rooted in the intersections of humanity, nature, and technological exploration, seeking to probe the dynamic interactions between visual experience, the natural world, and cultural landscapes. Emphasizing the textures of water and the symbolic as well as spiritual resonance of natural scenery in human life, her works foreground the poetic dimension of environmental presence.

At present, BAISHUI is engaged in the study of Neo-Naturalism, a research and creative trajectory that unfolds through processes of material transformation, multilayered narrative, and a cosmology enriched by Eastern philosophy, in dialogue with artificial intelligence technologies.