Exposition solo « Transformer la pierre en or » : Biru ZHAO

LooLooLook Gallery, a contemporary art gallery located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, presents the solo exhibition by Biru ZHAO from 10 September to 10 October 2026.

Biru ZHAO Turning Stone into Gold 10 September — 10 October 2026 LooLooLook Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition by Biru ZHAO.

Turning Stone into Gold LooLooLook Gallery presents Turning Stone into Gold, an exhibition that forms part of its programme dedicated to dialogue between contemporary European and Asian practices.

Through this new series, Zhao Biru continues her reflection on the transformations of matter, gesture and vision, bringing ink, paper, stone and memory into dialogue.

Her work explores the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, between fragility and strength, matter and light.

Born in China into a family of artists, trained at Jiangnan University and subsequently at the École supérieure d’Art et de Design d’Amiens, Zhao Biru has lived and worked in France for over twenty years.

Her journey, nurtured by Chinese calligraphy and contemporary painting, has shaped a singular artistic vocabulary where power and gentleness are balanced. Ink remains at the heart of her language, but it now transcends the boundaries of painting to occupy space.

In Turning Stone into Gold, recycled paper, fragile and destined to be discarded, metamorphoses into mineral volumes of astonishing lightness. It becomes stone, relief and sculpture, while ink transforms into matter and the calligraphic gesture becomes space.

Suspended on the wall, these works invite us to reconsider our relationship with value, time and transformation. Zhao Biru does not seek to create an illusion, but to shift our perception and provoke wonder.

Her creative process relies on a dialogue between intuition, water, breath and movement. Without preliminary sketches, each work is born from a balance between control and chance, in the spirit of the circulation of Qi.

Golden lines then traverse the dark surfaces like breaths or bursts of light, revealing what once seemed hidden