Beijing-based artist Zhiyong Jing creates miniature paintings that make a big impression. Working predominantly on small canvases, he conjures up evocative, cinematic scenes which he describes as comprising of “dreams, bodies and absurd realities”. Each painting invites narrative interpretation—a man plummets through the air without a parachute; a hitchhiker hails a passing car in an otherwise empty mountainscape; a tiny figure watches as a swing set burns—simultaneously intriguing, beguiling and unsettling the viewer.
