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Chicago artist Lucca Colombelli founded Povos in 2020 as an online gallery. After a run of successful pop-up projects, Povos moved to its first physical space on Milwaukee Avenue in late 2021, and later to a larger gallery in Chicago's West Town Gallery district. In 2024, Povos partnered with artist and gallerist Winston Guo, founder of W. Gallery, leading to the opening of Povos Downtown, an additional exhibition space in Chicago's South Loop. This expansion allows Povos to open 10 exhibitions per year. Since its founding, Povos has produced 36 exhibitions featuring more than 160 unique artists. The gallery was pleased to make its international fair debut at EXPO/Frieze Chicago 2024, showcasing works by represented artists William Schaeuble and Ashkon Haidari. Povos amplifies the voices of emerging and early-career artists, focusing on unique, surreal, and politically engaged narratives. The gallery now aims to build its international platform, supporting artists committed to exploring deep and timeless truths.
繁 荫 (Fán Yīn) is a state of mind that evokes the lush, protective shelter provided by a dense cover of
leaves. It symbolizes the abundance of nature, and its role as a sanctuary for life. And while there is no
direct English translation for this Chinese word, Fán Yīn invites the viewer to conjure their own. In
today’s chaotic world, Fán Yīn serves as a tranquil oasis beneath the proverbial canopy, where the mind
can find rest amongst refraction.
This group exhibition of works by emergent to early career artists showcases a diverse range of
compositions that explore the richness and power of the natural world through various artistic mediums
and styles. The participating artists—Pei Ke, Hiromi Murai, Yichao Liu, and Edward Hongyi JIA—each
bring their unique perspective to the theme, examining the intricate relationships between nature and
humanity; past and present; reality and illusion. Collectively, the works included in Fán Yīn evoke the
peace of ecosystems, both natural and artificial, working in symbiotic pursuit of peaceful survival.
Edward Hongyi JIA's “Sun” warms the room with inverse proportion, lending light, shadow and palpable
humidity to Fán Yīn, which emerges as its own ecosystem. Within the context of Pei Ke’s tempera
paintings of flora and fauna; Hiromi Murai’s employment of traditional Japanese painting techniques;
and Yichao Liu’s studied contrasts of representation versus abstraction, the exhibition presents a
comprehensive view of the forms and meanings found in nature–engaging the viewer on visual, tactile,
and spiritual levels.
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