张羽于2012年4月16日完成了构思已久的新作“封存的指印”，这是一件小型装置作品。这件作品不再强调指印行为的修行观念，而是截取指印行为的短暂过程中的指印痕迹，将其封存起来。这些指印与以往指印作品中的指印完全不同，由于材料的变化，使留下来的指印具有非常清楚的指纹痕迹，是可以证明具有艺术家个人身份的印记。换句话说，就是强调了指印的社会性属性。

这次封存指印行为，不是将指印痕迹封闭起来存档让观众看不到，而是通过一种方式封存这些指印痕迹之后展示给观众。“封存的指印”也是一次视觉审美的探讨。它由看不见的指印行为与所看到的指甲油，指纹，木材和玻璃制作的透明盒子，光的投射等等，或许能留给观众一些新的感受。

“封存的指印”的封存行为方式是可以持续的，将艺术家本人不同阶段、不同情绪状态摁压的“指印”作为他的指纹档案封存的。

有幸的是，这次展览张羽与荷兰国际策展人马腾·贝尔特合作，马腾·贝尔特为展览撰文.事实上，“封存的指印”是张羽为这次个展特别创作的。所以，这次在其他画廊的个展，严格意义上讲，是一件作品的展览。

On April 16th, 2012, Zhang Yu accomplished his new work Sealed Fingerprints, a small piece of installation that he had conceived quite a long time ago. This piece no longer emphasizes the concept of self-cultivation in the practice of fingerprinting. Instead, it notes down part of the prints in the short process and seals them up. The fingerprints in this piece are different from those in the earlier works. Made by different materials, they are manifested in quite clear traces, which can reflect the artist’s identity. In other words, the work emphasizes the social attributes of the fingerprints.

The practice of sealing does not mean hiding the fingerprints from viewers by archiving them, but presenting them to viewers after they are sealed up in a certain way. Sealed Fingerprints is also an inquiry by visual aesthetics. Composed of the invisible practice of fingerprinting and the visible nail polisher, fingerprints, wood, the transparent glass-box and the cast of light, the work might provide viewers with something new.

The way of sealing up can be applied to other works. Zhang’s fingerprints made at various stages and with different emotions can also be sealed into his fingerprint archive.

We are pleased that for this project Zhang Yu works together with Maarten Bertheux, the international curator of The Netherlands for which Maarten has written an article for the exhibition. Actually Sealed Fingerprints is specially created for this project. So this solo exhibition held by the OTHER GALLERY, in a strict sense, is the exhibition of a single piece of work.