AroundSpace Gallery is excited to present The Narrative of Nature, a dual solo exhibition for two young artists, Vemo and Yi Wen, at the beginning of 2026.

We live in an era when tremendous technological advancements have distanced us from nature. Yet our dependence on and appreciation of nature never end. The nature around us provides us with infinite inspiration and possibilities ---- nothing is too ordinary to pursue. Nature tells, draws, and sculpts. It has its own rules and patterns, beauty and logic, resisting the intervention of human beings. Vemo and Yi Wen draw their inspiration primarily from nature. Either on surface or in three dimensions, they situate their practice within set parameters to investigate ideas of nature, environment, time, space, and humanity. Their gazes and participations are both destructive and reconstructive. Their works are where art and nature converge in serene and harmonious union.

Born in Shanghai in 1991 and now living in Berlin, Vemo Hang received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Zürich University of the Art and studied MA in art history from Freie Universität Berlin before 2020. Her art practice involves painting, sculpture, and digital media. Space, time, and migration are where her interests lie, thanks to her personal experience. In her prime medium of sculpture, Vemo employs an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials and forms to address the spatial, architectural, natural, and contextual conditions of contemporary art. Her signature piece, Initiating, is part of a group of wall sculptures made of mineral paint and PLA materials. The brush stroke-like shapes, painted in vivid red, evokes tension and rhythm, presence and movement, bringing a feeling of natural and manmade objects. Her other works, some reminding us of Brâncuși’s Bird in Space while others may look like building structures, are also made in bright colors and organic shapes, defying a clear definition but offering an ambiguity of nature and virtual reality. The viewer’s experience of their shapes can change depending on vantage point, proximity to other works, shadows they cast on the wall, and the quality of light as it shifts over the course of the day.

Based in Hangzhou, Yi Wen’s mixed media artwork engages with nature, living organs, the environment, and human intervention. Graduated from the Printmaking Department of China Art Academy, she has exhibited frequently in galleries and museums in China. Her work is built on the principles of constant experimentation, an unabating curiosity in materials, and close observation of nature. Shells, eggs, leaves, stones, fossils, and micro living world are her subject matters. Observation of the natural world was central to her approach of making art. She turned natural occurring geometries and structures, such as shell patterns, bird feathers, into abstract compositions. With a meticulous depiction of details and a saturated surreal palette, she shows us a way in which the imagination of an artist works in the process of transforming impressions of nature into the more real life of images. In her paintings, inside and outside, negative and positive, space and time, can be reversed and everything is connected. A spiral appears on the shell of a snail at the same time is the structure of a galaxy, and in other forms in nature.

The most traditional media, painting and sculpture, can be equally futuristic, through their innovative use of materials and execution of familiar forms, Vemo and Yi Wen’s work invites viewers to reconsider their sense of self, object, space, time, and nature. They use an abstract vocabulary that often combine geometric and organic shapes, industrial processes and materials. Their eminently allusive works subtly explore the relationship between human and nature and evoke in their obstinacy and vulnerability.

Stillness and movement, intense and subtle, the two artists’ work traverses the realms of sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing with tireless experimentation, creative acuity and endless rigor. Through their artistic practice, they unlock nature, create a new type of reality and narrative, at the same time unveil our co-dependency with nature.