This Page Is Intentionally Left Blank #

2026, Handwoven Jacquard Weave, Wool and Cotton, 88 × 100 cm. Designed and Handwoven by Yujie Zhou.

This Page Is Intentionally Left Blank is a handwoven Jacquard textile based on a photograph of my own shadow holding a ladder and attempting to climb upward. In Chinese online culture, a “ladder” is also a colloquial term for tools such as VPNs used to bypass the Great Firewall. The image connects the physical gesture of climbing with the attempt to cross an invisible digital wall.

A large opening is cut from the woven image, allowing viewers to look through the textile and into the surrounding installation. Suspended within the drawloom-inspired structure, the work considers how visibility is controlled, and how acts of looking, climbing, and circumventing can become embodied responses to systems that restrict access to information.

This Page Is Intentionally Left Blank, Installation View at Health Hammer, Solo Exhibition at Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland, 2026.