Tan Xiaozheng’s Journey of Healing and Restarting
📍 Chengdu · CHINA
A studio for conversations, writings, and observations on the lives and works of artists who have shaped, and continue to shape, the living textures of contemporary practice.
Featured Series
Zhao 3 Mu 4
A long-running online art exhibition series capturing the cadence of artists’ studios across China.
The Project
Mickey & the Lost Number
An ongoing visual essay and reading series. Forgot the Number unfolds as a meditative archive of fragments, while Mickey opens the door to Backwall’s curatorial core.
Latest Interviews
Where Has the Heart Gone? A person who has been painting through twenty-three years of turbulence.
She wakes up in pain every morning. But she doesn’t tel […]
Insiders Watch 《Ranbiwa》: Loneliness, Confusion, Disorder — And Then?
On the afternoon of May 9, Dongkoh & Backwall, toge […]
Escape and Return: Claiming the Gilded Scars Amidst the Mists of Daba Mountains
Guest: Yin Jiulong (Designer, Artist, Founder of Happy […]
Wei Yan × Zhao Huan: When “85 New Wave” Meets “New Species”—Chengdu’s Wildest Side Is Back!
【Intro】 Inside the Chengdu Times Art Museum, a conversa […]
If There Is Sand in Your Heart, Anywhere Can Be the Maldives
A Visit to He Liping’s Studio in Siyi Village, Chengdu […]
Finding Clarity in Blur（A Conversation with Artist Meizi）
The conversation took place on a quiet afternoon on Mar […]
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