Last year, as Zhang Ran and I wandered through Berlin’s Neukölln district, it was unfathomable to relate the pervasive smell of roasted chicken drifting through the streets to her work. Yet the way she described this neighborhood—where she has lived for many years—was always picturesque, like fragments from a novel.

“Eventsight” marks Zhang Ran’s first solo exhibition in China. Based between Berlin and Rotterdam, the artist continues the narrative trajectory initiated in her previous Berlin exhibition, Dark Romance – eponymous with her novel and its second chapter – which also serves as the prologue to this exhibition.