KILLION HUANG

EDJI Gallery is pleased to present Silhouette Love, the inaugural solo exhibition of Chinese painter Killion Huang. Born in 1999 in Guangzhou, Huang develops a figurative practice centered on intimacy, memory, and queer visibility. The exhibition brings together fourteen new paintings from his latest body of work.

In Silhouette Love, Huang turns toward the people and relationships that shape his immediate world. Friends, lovers, and fleeting encounters appear throughout the series, drawn from both his time in New York and his life in China. Rather than documenting specific moments, the paintings construct emotional spaces where memory, desire, and projection overlap.

Light plays a central role in Huang’s work. Interior scenes are structured through the tension between illuminated and shadowed areas, creating compositions where visibility itself becomes unstable. Windows, curtains, and reflected light repeatedly frame the figures, producing a constant movement between concealment and exposure, intimacy and distance.

The exhibition begins with Crossing the Line, a painting Huang describes as connected to his tendency to withdraw in moments of emotional confrontation. A curtain partially conceals the scene, introducing a recurring motif throughout the series: the threshold between private and public space. From there, the works gradually open onto the artist’s inner world, where domestic interiors become sites of emotional negotiation and queer self-representation.

Across the exhibition, Huang approaches the figure with restraint. Faces are often softened or obscured, while posture and gesture carry the emotional weight of the scenes. The paintings do not seek narrative resolution. Instead, they remain suspended between presence and disappearance, suggesting forms of intimacy that resist fixed definition.