Blue is the dominant hue of East London.

It lingers in the dampness between paving stones at dawn, flickers on the glass of rented flats, and casts its cold light across computer screens. Within this “Blue Membrane”, three Chinese-born female artists of the same generation, currently based in London, unfold a perceptual ritual shaped by body, memory, material and space. For China’s Gen Z, blue does not merely represent the sky but speaks of nostalgia without a past, the mute stillness that follows emotional overload, and a quiet, suspended melancholia shaped by digital solitude.

Blue Membrane is both a woven tapestry of female artistic practice and a mode of existence grown within the frequency of blue. The artists bring their finely tuned sensibilities of body, identity, and the natural world into Hackney, a space shaped by overlapping time and cultural memory.

Within this blue membrane, art is no longer a metaphor for femininity or the body. It becomes a membrane that breathes with the viewer, damp and fragile, yet resonant with persistence. It extends a quiet but unwavering invitation.