Beyond the Threshold: Yang Bodu’s Inner Journey

A narrow threshold - no more than a blade of light in the dark - opens the new exhibition dedicated to Yang Bodu, a visionary exploration of how memory, perception, and landscape intertwine. The recurring doorway in her paintings - at times a glow, a portico, or a hidden box - becomes the symbol of an inner journey that moves through homes, museums, caves, and ancient horizons. In recent years, the artist has gradually moved away from detailed interior realism toward rarefied spaces where emptiness is not absence but a field of heightened perception. Walls dissolve into lines, corners contract into luminous slivers -  the threshold becomes a passage into landscapes of rocks, fjords, and deep nights that evoke a suspended sense of time. Within these vast scenes, the true center is unexpectedly intimate - a small meditative cave, a symbolic refuge against the world’s vastness. The motif of the pond, the heart of the exhibition, opens an even more inward territory. Around an island poised between architecture and dream, images shift like reflections on water - memory and reality slide into one another, erasing boundaries and orientation. Each painting appears as the echo of the one before it, forming a mental landscape where time vibrates and perception sinks deeper. Blending architectural rigor with cinematic imagination, Yang Bodu composes an emotional geography made of thresholds, shadows, and revelations. A visual meditation on seeing, remembering, losing one’s way - before finding an exit once again.