The dry riverbed finds no thanks for its past is a sculpture exhibition by Beijing-based artist Zheng Lu (b. 1978, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia). The show features a new body of work, Tide Crossing, inspired by the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore alongside recent sculptures from the artist’s celebrated Water in Dripping series, which has garnered international attention.
Zheng is known for his technically ambitious sculptures, often focusing on water, which have been exhibited in museums and public spaces around the world, including a massive cascading work at Hengdian World Studios, known as Chinawood, in Hangzhou, China; a twenty-three-foot-tall steel sculpture installed in a residential complex on Jersey in the Channel Islands; and a twenty-foot-tall stainless-steel sculpture exhibited in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza adjacent to the United Nations in New York, now in a private collection in the United States.
Zheng comes from a literary family and often draws from poetry and traditional Chinese philosophy as a conceptual foundation for his work. This exhibition takes its title from a line in Stray Birds, a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), the first Asian Nobel laureate whose poetry, fiction, music and art have touched the lives of people all over the world, particularly in China, where his historic visit in 1924 marked a significant milestone in China-India relations.
Venue: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 5 Lock Road 01-05, Gillman Barracks, Singapore 108933
When: 24 May - 26 Jul 2025,
By: Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore
