Mocube is pleased to announce that we will host artist Zheng Jing's latest solo exhibition, The Absent She, on February 15, 2025. This will be Zheng Jing's third solo exhibition at Mocube, following Zheng Jing Art Project in 2015, Room 39 in 2017. The exhibition will run until March 16, 2025.

In early 2019, I became a mother, amidst the daily tasks of production, breastfeeding, child-rearing, and housework, I utilized fragmented moments of time, shifting roles, and began creating Home^n. In this process, the movement of the needle and thread in my hands became like my daily writing, each stitch a practice of creating order and seeking harmony within myself. Over these years of family life, this work has become more of a self-portrait—an invisible woman.

Over the 1926 days from 2019 to 2024, my work was distributed between the studio and home. In the studio, I used 121 pens to neatly and straightly write “1” on paper, noting the total count of “1s” each time I paused. This resulted in a 21.85-meter paper work titled 6482561.

At home, I chose 195 colors of thread to sew “1” onto everyday fabrics. Each time I stopped, I recorded the number of stitches. This process felt more like a return, one that required no disguise or rhetoric, but followed the most natural way, which perhaps ultimately led to balance. I completed works such as the bedsheet 308562, pillowcase 24935, T-shirt 26098, insoles 3577, and notebook 119657.

Throughout these years of creation, the measurement of process has also been a questioning of my body and time. Through this continuous, repetitive work, the accumulation of “1s” made time visible in this tangible reality and flat space, represented in numbers. During this process, my personal willpower triggered physical responses under my conscious control, moving from difference to sameness (resistance). I needed to work hard to balance it all, with the body as both material and labor in this journey.

——Zheng Jing