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Alice Looking Through The Glass

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Opening time：2025.7.12
Duration: 2025.07.12 -- 2025.07.20
Location: Today Art Museum Hall 3, No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Exhibition Preface

“While I was drawing, I was actually thinking to myself—what would it turn out to look like?”

This is the question 10-year-old artist Alice repeatedly asked herself during the creative process. The “OCs” (Original Characters) she created are not just figures on paper—they are tangible extensions of her emotions and identity. These characters, as her “spiritual companions,” carry her inner feelings and gradually grow and come to life within the images.

The exhibition revolves around three emotional dimensions: Imagination – Loneliness – Protection, constructing a loose and flowing space. Guided by the character quotes on the walls, viewers are invited to “walk through her moods,” experiencing how a digitally-native generation builds identity, responds to reality, and forms connections with the world through visual language.

These characters are both projections of Alice’s imagination and emotional companions, forming a path for her to express emotion and explore self-identity. She gives her characters distinct visual traits to carry complex emotional metaphors: green skin symbolizes loneliness, pink-and-purple hair hides joy, and the one eye that’s always drawn becomes a sustained, introspective gaze at the world—a form of self-observation tinged with uncertainty and affirmation.

In her hands, “a child’s view of the world” is no longer simply light and carefree—it becomes a complex experience rich with emotional weight, a soft yet firm yearning to protect.
Her works reflect how members of Generation Alpha, growing up in a media-saturated environment, construct identity, express emotions, and reshape meaning through images and characters.

Children’s art is not a rehearsal for the future, but a real expression unfolding right now.

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