Show puts women artists in the picture

"Now that literature doesn't offer an answer, we may find it from art. I borrow the concept of leaving from Ibsen. It's women artists getting rid of the bias and finding their position in society," says Zhu, who has focused on female artists in recent years.

In the past three years, Zhu has held four exhibitions concentrating on works by female artists in major cities in China. Her last show Metaphor and Gaze, held in Shenzhen's La Vie Art Center earlier last year, explored women's real desires, conundrums, confusion and anxieties from various levels and perspectives.

Zhu says there's a gender stereotype that female artists are easily influenced by their emotions, and that the subjects of their works are limited to individual sensations. There's even a belief that women will stop creating art once they fall in love with someone, get married or give birth.