Artist Wang Yingying at the exhibition © RollingStone Big Splash, Rosewood Hotel, Beijing

The women-themed special exhibition "She and She" jointly planned and launched by Rosewood Hotel Beijing and RollingStone Big Splash opened warmly on May 21, 2021 in the spa suite on the 6th floor of Rosewood Hotel Beijing, the core of Beijing's business.

"She and She" uses the video works of artist Wang Yingying as the story line and invites her to create an artistic space unique to contemporary women for us. Through a series of delicate and shocking black and white portraits, it leads the audience to feel the inner lack or attachment of women. Understand the ups and downs of individual life.

"She and Her" exhibition site © RollingStone Splash, Rosewood Hotel, Beijing

Feel the harvest of life in her and her room

British female writer Virginia Woolf used the pen and ink in her hand to build a "woman's own room" in the novel. The camera frame in the artist's hand and this suite at the Rosewood Hotel in Beijing are also the "self-space" for women to express freely.

In this exhibition, visitors can stroll freely in the spa suite on the 6th floor of the Rosewood Hotel in Beijing and appreciate the "Body" and "Portrait" series of artist Wang Yingying's "Forty: 1976". This group of works deeply explores age from a female perspective. Starting from the author's own fearful thinking and questioning about the age of "forty years old", 36 people born in 1976 from all over the country were photographed in 2016.

"She and Her" exhibition site © RollingStone Splash, Rosewood Hotel, Beijing

Ms. Martha Mao, Regional Marketing and Sales Director of Rosewood Hotel in Beijing, delivered an opening speech for this exhibition, and then artist Wang Yingying personally shared her creative opportunities and shooting experience with the guests present. Based on a woman's personal life experience, she led everyone to think about issues such as contemporary women's individual emotions and self-identity.

Use art and fragrance

Draw a portrait of "them"

At the exhibition site, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Fumar Perfume Publishing House used fragrance to engage in a dialogue on olfactory experience with "She and She". It used artistic visual language to convey the fragrance, and mobilized stories and memories in the mind through the fragrance., providing the "She and She" exhibition with dual enjoyment of smell and vision.

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Fragrance Press Fragrance Products

If a perfume is a portrait of the user, then this portrait paints her innate thoughts and temperament-just like the women in the "Forty: 1976" series: free and have their own styles, which matches the female portrait symbolized by the most representative fragrance of "Portrait of a Lady as graceful as she" from Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Fumar Perfume Publishing House.

From the selection and cultivation of raw materials to the extraction and balance of spices, perfumers, like artists, use precise fragrance styles to create masterpieces in the fragrance world. The "Portrait of a Lady" fragrance uses the subversive concentration of roses to outline a rumored portrait of a lady. It is noble, elegant and spectacular. It reverses the original tender meaning of roses and creates an elegant and warm independent female image.

Forty: 1976

Embrace the fullness of time

For thousands of years of cultural history, we have been accustomed to viewing women's bodies in public spaces. The smooth skin was traced by painter Raphael with delicate brushstrokes, and the flawless body was carved with warm marble by sculptor Alexandros. However, scars and folds were left alone for women to sigh in the mirror in the room.

Artist Wang Yingying uses images as a medium, mainly focusing on the proposition of women's lives, individual emotions and identity, showing that it is not easy for ordinary people to detect, but it also has the characteristics of revealing the essence of things.

The artist re-focused on the changing body due to factors such as aging and childbirth, and intertwined the body and writing into a visual collection of poems. In the visual space established between the disordered portrait and the body, a profound reflection on the relationship between age, time and identity was completed.

Wang Yingying x Zhu Yujie

Conversation in the room that belongs to "them"

left| Writer and curator Zhu Yujie

right| Artist Wang Yingying

On May 21, the special exhibition on women's theme of "She and She" honored to invite writer and curator Zhu Yujie to have a dialogue with artist Wang Yingying. In this room belonging to "She and She", I deeply thought about the relationship between women's age, time and identity.

Wang Yingying and Zhu Yujie shared a wide range of topics on the identities of creators and women. When discussing "how to view the relationship between creative expression and life", Zhu Yujie believed: "Writers and artists cannot just sit in their study, but must connect with other people in the world." Wang Yingying also believes that creation has long been integrated with her life, and the boundary between creation and daily life has become increasingly blurred.

The discussion of "age anxiety" triggered the active participation of the audience. Wang Yingying uses literature, photography, and documentaries as means to explore herself. Her creation not only helps her resist age anxiety, physical humiliation or gender discrimination from outside society, but also serves as a tool for her self-treatment and self-growth. She believes that she appreciates her present self more than she was younger ten years ago, and she is very much looking forward to what state she will be like when she is fifty or sixty years old. "My dream is to be an old lady who can dance discos at the age of eighty." Wang Yingying added.

Zhu Yujie also shared with everyone his thoughts on moving from the city to the suburbs. She moved away from the bustling downtown area of Shanghai and came to the edge of the city surrounded by greenery. She wrote, communicated, exercised, and thought in her carefully built residence...

From objects stared at by desire in artistic expression to "invisible people" lacking in political discourse, women in modern society still suffer from objectification, women's poverty, age anxiety, and body attacks... Fortunately, from Madame Curie, Mary Shelley, Sarah Lucas, Yoko Ono, to artist Wang Yingying and writer and curator Zhu Yujie, there are always outstanding independent women who are at the forefront of the spirit of the times, standing with the thousands of "she" behind them. Express their female strength and independent thinking with resounding works.

Maybe they are no longer young, maybe they have never been perfect... but in this room,"she and she" can stop worrying and uneasy, face the gains and frustrations of life, and feel their unique existence.