Changpeng Li- Free Fall
LOY Gallery Singapore is honoured to present “Free Fall,” the inaugural Singapore solo exhibition by Chinese artist Changpeng Li, curated by Junyao Chen. On view from October 2 to December 31, 2025, the exhibition features a series of recent monochromatic works dominated by a distinctive lilac palette. Through montage-like visual syntax and unique colour strategy, the works explore the “free fall” and development of images within memory and perception.
Li’s practice offers a profound response to our screen-age visual experience. Like a darkroom technician, he captures and suspends fleeting imagery from social media, news events and private memories at that hovering moment “just about to happen.” These narrative ellipses – empty street corners, an unclicked shutter, cropped gestures – invite viewers to complete meanings through personal memory, transforming painting into a medium of deep resonance.
The artist’s persistent lilac hue transcends formal qualities, carrying profound symbolic significance. This hazy, nearly pathological tone neutralizes the provocative nature and disparities of original images, merging news brutality, media glamour and daily banality into a silent, twilight unity. It serves as both metaphor for collective alienation and a chromatic politics that reshapes social perception. The works’ dimensions intentionally approximate electronic screens, simultaneously mimicking and resisting contemporary viewing habits. Without clear protagonists or narratives, viewers are drawn into closer engagement where meaning emerges in the moment of encounter—an echo “summoned from absence.”
“Free Fall” ultimately reorchestrates the very act of viewing. Within Li’s suspended temporality, seeing becomes development, and images become triggers for contemplation, inviting audiences to reclaim meaningful engagement beyond the rapid flow of visual information.
LOY Gallery Singapore is honoured to present “Free Fall,” the inaugural Singapore solo exhibition by Chinese artist Changpeng Li, curated by Junyao Chen. On view from October 2 to December 31, 2025, the exhibition features a series of recent monochromatic works dominated by a distinctive lilac palette. Through montage-like visual syntax and unique colour strategy, the works explore the “free fall” and development of images within memory and perception.
Li’s practice offers a profound response to our screen-age visual experience. Like a darkroom technician, he captures and suspends fleeting imagery from social media, news events and private memories at that hovering moment “just about to happen.” These narrative ellipses – empty street corners, an unclicked shutter, cropped gestures – invite viewers to complete meanings through personal memory, transforming painting into a medium of deep resonance.
The artist’s persistent lilac hue transcends formal qualities, carrying profound symbolic significance. This hazy, nearly pathological tone neutralizes the provocative nature and disparities of original images, merging news brutality, media glamour and daily banality into a silent, twilight unity. It serves as both metaphor for collective alienation and a chromatic politics that reshapes social perception. The works’ dimensions intentionally approximate electronic screens, simultaneously mimicking and resisting contemporary viewing habits. Without clear protagonists or narratives, viewers are drawn into closer engagement where meaning emerges in the moment of encounter—an echo “summoned from absence.”
“Free Fall” ultimately reorchestrates the very act of viewing. Within Li’s suspended temporality, seeing becomes development, and images become triggers for contemplation, inviting audiences to reclaim meaningful engagement beyond the rapid flow of visual information.