2002.5.17 – 2002.5.18
T-ART, Room 979, 302 Suzhou South Road, Shanghai

The exhibition was originally scheduled to be held from April 25 to April 30, 2002 at BizArt Centre. However, on the day before the opening, due to a “security bureau visit” incident, the exhibition was cancelled at the last minute. The exhibition setup had already been completed but was forced to be dismantled and postponed. This was one of the significant events in Zhou Zixi’s early independent exhibitions in Shanghai.

Later, the exhibition was rescheduled for May at the “T-ART” space on Suzhou Creek. The exhibition space was arranged across two floors, with a video projection device installed on the staircase between the first and second floors. The video work, titled Sorry, I Don’t Know, was displayed there. This formed a kind of transitional link between different viewing perspectives and the linear narrative between two spaces.

According to exhibition records, Zhou Zixi’s show was seen as an “atypical” artistic action within the framework of the exhibition, leaving a distinctive mark in the form of artist self-organization. Compared with object-based exhibitions, it expressed an independent spirit through a mode of artistic strategy.

Zhou Zixi regarded Sorry, I Don’t Know as “a kind of reflection on his own creative subjectivity,” a manifestation of “relatedness” and a shift in artistic expression under the social conditions of contemporary China. He indicated that the exhibition once again touched on “specific doubts about the Chinese context,” returning to this issue in a more intimate way.