VIBRATIONS DE LUMIÈRE

BOOROOM presents Vibrations de Lumière, the first solo exhibition by French-Chinese artist Zhu Hong at the gallery. It brings together her paintings, works on paper and a site-specific installation from the Lumière reflet series, extending her exploration beyond the canvas. The exhibition places Zhu Hong's works in dialogue with Lena Solovyeva's metal sculptures from the Objects /Modules series, whose material language subtly resonates with the visual qualities of the paintings and drawings.

“Light is a better painter than I am”, remarks Zhu Hong as she observes the shifting reflections and glimmers on the surface of water. Her practice is devoted to exploring the nature of perception and the mutability of the image. Throughout her work, light becomes vibration — a pure form of energy that transforms the viewer's gaze. 

Born in Shanghai, Zhu Hong has lived and worked in France for many years. Her works are held in the public collections of the Artothèque de Nantes, the Artothèque de La Roche-sur-Yon, the Artothèque d'Angers, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, the Musée Ziem, the Musées de Sens and the FRAC Pays de la Loire collection.

Chance plays a fundamental role in Zhu Hong's artistic process, as does the interplay of multiple artistic media. Working with highly diluted Chinese ink, oil paint, coloured pencil and photography, she constructs images through layering, repetition and what she describes as "controlled instability", which complicate the materiality of the work and disrupt its photographic precision.

Water and light remain the central subjects of her practice. Zhu Hong is particularly interested in the variability of perception and in the ways a work reveals itself according to the viewer's distance from it. Upon close inspection, individual lines, strokes and surface texture gradually come into focus. At a distance, however, details give way to transparency, luminous effects and shifting fields of colour. Her paintings engage the senses through a different kind of gesture: using broad, energetic brushstrokes, Zhu Hong captures the impulse of movement and preserves it within the material itself.

Zhu Hong's works reward sustained attention, unfolding as reflections on time and on the act of looking in relation to a particular place and moment. They propose a distinct way of seeing, where the question is not simply what we perceive, but how we perceive it. Thus, the artist consistently offers the experience of slow contemplation, where there is no fixed, singular point of view.