Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is proud to present
Lin Zhipeng: Speaking with the Body
From February 26th to March 10th, 2025.
On our Artsy page
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to present Lin Zhipeng: Speaking with the Body, an exclusive online exhibition available on our Artsy page.
Also known as No.223 (a tribute to the film Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai), Lin Zhipeng is a contemporary Chinese photographer born in 1979 in Guangdong. Without formal academic training, he has developed a free and spontaneous style, documenting the daily life of young Chinese people with raw and poetic imagery. His photographs capture parties, private encounters, and moments of vulnerability, exploring identity, desire, and sexuality in a society still marked by taboos and rigid conventions.
Influenced by Hong Kong’s culture, cinema, and pop music, Zhipeng incorporates vintage and ritualistic elements from the ’80s and ’90s, intense colour contrasts, and Sino-Western floral patterns into his works. His style evokes a cinematic and ambiguous aesthetic, creating evocative images that explore the relationship between body, nature, and modernity, as seen in pieces like Yang-Color Releasing and Water Growing.
In his photography, the body is portrayed as less aestheticised and more real, treated as an object of function and exploration, creating a space for discovery and transgression. His work celebrates freedom without constraints, as he explains in an interview with Valentina Schito for the exhibition Free Love Chronicles:
“My personality defines my style and the content of my work. I love freedom, both in daily life and in photography, where I seek to break limits and conventions. Nudity is as natural as sleeping or eating, and I want to capture it without restrictions. I am not solely interested in obtaining a ‘good photo,’ but in experiencing the creative process spontaneously.”
Flowers, a recurring symbol in his images, express fragility, beauty, and the transience of the body, as seen in Dolphine and Flower Rude. They also embody an organic revolution, a concept reminiscent of Joseph Beuys, where nature’s cycle becomes a metaphor for personal and social transformation. This approach is evident in works like Flattering Arrows (2023) and Fings in Pride (2022), where the artist adds a lyrical dimension, reflecting life’s ephemeral beauty.
Finally, Zhipeng sees photography as an experience of connection, forging authentic relationships with his models, whether longtime friends like Coco or strangers found through online open calls. For him, art is a shared act, always online, always connected.
