乔鑫：I Like to Be Your Gift Xin Qiao: I Like to Be Your Gift
艺术家 Artists: 乔鑫 Xin Qiao
2026-10-23 – 2026-11-04 · 杭州 Hangzhou · L Gallery
我想成为你的礼物，并非仅仅是将自己交付给另一个人，更是对自己的人生做出自由、勇敢而坚定的选择。 To be your gift is not merely to hand oneself over to another; it is to make a free, brave and steadfast choice about one's own life.
这次展览的作品源于对亲密关系的持续体验和想象。在这里，爱不只是被描绘的对象，更是作者对人生的一种思考和追求。作者通过明亮的色块、明确流畅的线条、直白的人物关系和肢体语言，来表达亲密关系中的细碎情绪以及直接的感官体验，表达对爱的天真与执着，让爱和被爱成为可以被观看、触及和收藏的礼物。
展览空间被构想为一个为观众准备的礼物盒。蝴蝶结、木质纹理与作品陈列，共同构成一个介于私人经验与公开展示之间的亲密场域。绘画在其中既是情感的记录，也是一次次主动的赠予。
我想成为你的礼物，并非仅仅是将自己交付给另一个人，更是对自己的人生做出自由、勇敢而坚定的选择。那些看似无形的、柔软的、有些用力的情感，拥有着自身的重量和价值。
礼物是一种关于给予的仪式感，也是一种关系的隐喻。当我们试图与另一个人建立起关系，赠予的究竟是一件物品、一段记忆，还是一个愿意向对方敞开的自己？
在这个礼物盒里，作品被打开，而爱和被爱是一件需要用一生来完成的事。
策展人：Lim
开幕：2026 年 10 月 23 日（周五）19:00 The works in this exhibition grow out of a sustained experience and imagining of intimacy. Here, love is not only a subject to be depicted; it is also the artist's way of thinking about, and pursuing, a life. Through bright planes of colour, clear and fluent lines, and candid figures and body language, Qiao Xin gives form to the small, fleeting emotions and direct sensory experiences of intimate relationships, and to a naive, stubborn devotion to love, so that loving and being loved become gifts that can be seen, touched and kept.
The exhibition space is conceived as a gift box prepared for the viewer. Ribbons, wood grain and the arrangement of the works together form an intimate field somewhere between private experience and public display. Within it, each painting is both a record of feeling and an act of giving.
To be your gift is not merely to hand oneself over to another person; it is to make a free, brave and steadfast choice about one's own life. Those seemingly formless, soft, slightly forceful feelings carry a weight and value of their own.
A gift is a ritual of giving, and a metaphor for a relationship. When we try to build a bond with another person, what is it we are really giving: an object, a memory, or a self willing to open up to the other?
Inside this gift box the works are unwrapped, while loving and being loved remain a task that takes a lifetime to complete.
Curator: Lim
Opening: Friday, 23 October 2026, 7 pm
