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Zhao Yao | Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025

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Zhao Yao | Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025

Dates: 2025.11.29 - 2026.4.30 (10:30 am - 6:30 pm daily)

Venue: Jui Tui Shrine, 283 Soi Phutorn, Talat Nuea, Mueang Phuket, Phuket 83000, Thailand

Theme: Eternal [Kalpa]

Curators: David Teh, Arin Rungjang, Hera Chan, Marisa Phandharakrajadej

Zhao Yao’s Signals from Heaven presents 7 weathered meditation cabins from Qinghai, used by monks and villagers for solitary retreats. In the Biennale, these box-like cabins are installed as found objects, each fitted with edited, multilingual texts from TED talks that address universal human concerns.

Installation views of Zhao Yao: Signals from Heaven, Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025, Phuket, Thailand

The work contrast spiritual solitude with digital-age connectivity, reframing the pursuit of enlightenment as a collective, dialogical practice. Through this interplay, the site becomes a space where private reflection meets shared discourse, subtly underscored by visual references to platforms like Google—highlighting how contemporary knowledge and belief are mediated.

Installation views of Zhao Yao: Signals from Heaven, Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025, Phuket, Thailand

Thus, Zhao Yao transforms Signals from Heaven into a critical arena—a ?series of works? that catalyzes reflection, compelling viewers to explore the shared foundations of selfhood while confronting the practical limits of human coexistence.

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Installation views of Zhao Yao: Signals from Heaven, Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025, Phuket, Thailand

For more information, please visit the official website below: https://www.thailandbiennale.org/en/program/artists/zhao-yao

About the Artist

Zhao Yao (b.1981, Sichuan, China) graduated from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Solo exhibitions include "IT'S ORDINARY, BUT…" Ota Fine Arts Tokyo / 7CHOME, Tokyo (2025), “A Few Ordinary Parallel Lines,” Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2025), "By and by it unfolds and then folds," Fosun Foundation, Shanghai (2025), "Breathing the Universe," Beijing Commune, Beijing (2022), “Signal of Heaven, Signal of God,” Beijing Commune, Beijing (2018), "The Power of Nature: A Ten Thousand Square Meter Painting in Beijing,” Beijing Workers Stadium, Beijing (2018) and "The Last Egg,” Beijing Commune, Beijing (2016). Major public collections include Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris), Rubell Family Collection (Miami), White Rabbit, Contemporary Chinese Art Collection (Sydney), K11 Art Foundation (Hong Kong), Long Museum (Shanghai), Fosun Foundation (Shanghai), Cc Foundation (Shanghai), Sifang Art Museum (Nanjing), BY ART MATTERS (Hangzhou).

Contacts:

Website: www.otafinearts.com

E-mail: sh@otafinearts.com

Tel：+8621 33681321