Join us on Friday April 3th to the opening of Hussel Zhu’s solo exhibition!

Hussel is a visual artist, researcher, and short story writer. His practice spans installation, performance, and video, alongside a long-standing but quieter engagement with drawing and painting — exploring his experience as an Asian immigrant in Europe: themes of cultural dislocation, translation failures, and fading connection to his native culture.

Hussel has recently shifted his focus to painting and drawing. He has long noticed that animal figures keep appearing in his sketches — birds, frogs, foxes — he is not entirely sure why: childhood memories, the puzzlement of encountering these animals in the city, or perhaps something about wildness — creatures that don’t naturally belong here, yet stay.

Hussel Zhu expands on the frog figures that have recurred throughout his earlier work. In ink painting traditions, frogs satirise those in power. On friday 3 April, he presents this body of work for the first time in Honest Language, a solo exhibition of ink and mixed-media paintings on Xuan paper, alongside a video.