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November 01, 2025

A Blade Unheld

Ruiji Han @Galerie Dengyun, Shanghai
October 01 — November 01, 2025

A Blade Unheld, Ruiji Han @Galerie Dengyun, Shanghai, 2025

The exhibition will be presented in two parts: ‘Act i’ and ‘Act ii’. Derived from the artist’s personal writings, the title ‘A Blade Unheld’ is a subtle, parable-like imagery that hovers between language and materiality. It speaks not of the absence of a blade, but rather about its suspension — a state in which sharpness is withheld and power is deferred. When the blade departs from the grasping hand, its predetermined function as a weapon is disarmed, and its capacity for harm is thereby dissolved. Therefore, a new sensibility emerges, allowing the cold metal to acquire the potential of touching softness, of revealing vulnerability.

A Blade Unheld, Ruiji Han @Galerie Dengyun, Shanghai, 2025
River in the grid, 2025, Galvanized steel, Mild steel
Symbiotic Form/Reflection System, 2025, Mirror finish stainless steel, cement, mild steel
Symbiotic Form/Reflection System, 2025, Mirror finish stainless steel, cement, mild steel
Neural Blade, 2025, Aluminum, stainless steel, resin, galvanized steel
Defence of Deep Time, 2025, iron, cement, rebar, fossil, resin, raw crystal
Defence of Deep Time, 2025, iron, cement, rebar, fossil, resin, raw crystal
Defence of Deep Time, 2025, iron, cement, rebar, fossil, resin, raw crystal
Defence of Deep Time, 2025, iron, cement, rebar, fossil, resin, raw crystal
Cryo Layer III. 2025, resin, welding gloves
Cryo Layer III. 2025, resin, welding gloves
Cryo Layer II. 2025, resin, inner tube(bicycle), hand-forged razor
Cryo Layer II. 2025, resin, inner tube(bicycle), hand-forged razor
Cryo Layer I, 2025, resin, steel, cement, coal, nut, insect specimens-Malaysian Forest Scorpion, fur
Cryo Layer I, 2025, resin, steel, cement, coal, nut, insect specimens-Malaysian Forest Scorpion, fur
A Blade Unheld, Ruiji Han @Galerie Dengyun, Shanghai, 2025
That name, rots inward, 2025, Aluminum, clay, resin, buffalo horn, animal teeth

A Blade Unheld
Ruiji Han

Galerie Dengyun, Shanghai
October 01 — November 01, 2025

Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of their respective authors, photographers and, where applicable, the gallery.

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