The exhibition Water Town Balled: A Dialogue Between Wu Guanzhong and BAISHUI opened on October 10, 2025, at RONG Art Space and will run through November 10, 2025.

In this exhibition, artist BAISHUI presents her new series Infinite Dao: Water Town for the first time. The series translates the misty atmosphere of the water towns into abstract color and form, creating a lyrical dialogue within the exhibition space with Wu Guanzhong’s prints.

Born in the water towns of southern China, BAISHUI draws inspiration from the mists and rivers of Jiangnan. Her works follow the supple and fluid nature of water, extending the poetic spirit of her homeland through the language of light and shadow. When Wu Guanzhong’s prints are placed alongside BAISHUI’s new works, they do not exist as separate entities but rather meet like two ripples on the same surface of water—intersecting, resonating, and together singing of the boundless energy bestowed by the waterland.

Thus, Water Town Balled becomes a dialogue that transcends time and space: a conversation between an artistic vision rooted in tradition and everyday life, and an exploration that reaches toward the present and the future. Echoes Yet Unfaded—their resonance continues within the undulating waters and the pulse of art, reminding us that art, like water itself, is ever-flowing, ever-living, and eternally intertwined with life.

Recently, artist BAISHUI has also had two fresh developments. The first is that she officially relocated her studio to M50 Art District, Shanghai on September 19, 2025. For BAISHUI, a studio is more than a place of creation—it is a vessel where thought and life intertwine. It is both an extension of home and a living, flowing organism that carries the entire process of a work’s conception and growth.

The establishment of BAISHUI’s new studio marks not merely a physical move, but a migration of ideas and an evolution in creative practice. Here, she continues to develop her artistic and theoretical explorations centered on Neo-Naturalism—drawing inspiration from water, using transformation and fluidity of matter as her medium, and extending her ongoing inquiry into the intersections of nature, technology, and humanity.

Another is that artist BAISHUI named among 2025 Forbes China Contemporary Art Masters. On September 27, 2025, the Forbes China Contemporary Art Masters Award Ceremony was grandly held at the Beijing International Hotel, which gathered leading art figures from both China and abroad, aiming to establish benchmarks for the value of contemporary art and foster in-depth dialogue between Chinese art and global perspectives.

At this prestigious ceremony, artist BAISHUI received the Western Painting Category Award in the 2025 Forbes China Contemporary Art Masters selection. Renowned for her distinctive artistic language and cross-media visual expression, BAISHUI’s works explore the poetic relationship between nature and human existence. Through fluid and profound imagery, she investigates the philosophy of being and the rhythm of life. This award stands as a high recognition of BAISHUI’s artistic practice and signifies the important influence her work holds within the contemporary art landscape.

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 Contemporaray 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.