Common Ground Exhibition – Mandy Zhang Art

Mandy Zhang Art is delighted to announce Common Ground, a group exhibition presenting artists who engage with animals, creatures, and hybrid forms as reflections and extensions of lived experience. Moving between the literal and the symbolic, the works consider how non-human life is imagined and mythologised, revealing shared terrain between instinct, memory, and identity.

The exhibition features work by Juntao Gao, Jeanne F. Jalandoni, Kenji Lim, Yuma Radne, Annie Trevorah, Silia Ka Tung, and Lian Zhang, curated by William Gustafsson.

Across the exhibition, creatures appear not simply as subjects, but as carriers of social narratives. Juntao Gao’s sculptural practice examines the tensions between wild essence and social order informed by Qi, the Taoist understanding of a vital life force that animates bodies, matter, and the natural world. The artist adopts the visual language of taxidermy and domestic décor to expose the violence embedded in anthropocentric control and the uneasy domestication of nature.