XiyadieButterfly DreamMar 26 – May 11, 2024 Opening: Saturday, Mar 23, 4pm – 6.30pmArtist will be present Artist talk: Xiyadie in conversation with Hera ChanSaturday, Mar 23, 3pm – 4pm (conducted in English and Mandarin) Blindspot Gallery 15/F Po Chai Industrial Building 28 Wong Chuk Hang Road Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong +852 2517 6238 Tuesday – Saturday, 10.30am – 6.30pmSpecial opening hours on Monday, Mar 25, 12pm – 6pm blindspotgallery.com Butterfly Dream is Xiyadie’s debut solo exhibition at Blindspot Gallery. Presenting over thirty works including unseen works from the early 1980s to the present, it is the largest exhibition of Xiyadie ever presented.  Born in 1963 in Weinan, Shaanxi province, Xiyadie is a self-taught traditional Chinese papercut artist who uses a medium with origins dating back to the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 CE) to narrate his journey of coming out from rural China as a homosexual person. His autobiographical papercuts chronicle his transformation through an environment that does not lend political agency to queer identifying people, while also reflecting the struggle of a marginalized individual as a migrant worker in the big city. The exhibition titled Butterfly Dream alludes …