Created By
Jamie Xue
Curator
Jonathan Thomson
“Dust and Ashes 1” is a beautifully lyrical composition that the artist has painted not just once but twice, side-by-side on the same canvas. It is an extraordinary feat of patience and ability to duplicate the same marks, whether thin washes or more thickly applied impasto, and their location, on different sides of the same canvas. There are of course minor differences between each side, and part of the enjoyment of the work is pouring over the surface looking for them, but while doing so becoming entranced by the beauty of her marks and the virtuosity with which she handles her paint.
In this series, I chose the most mature group of creative thinking about vision and culture. The repeat of the picture in the picture is my inconsistent expression of the entire record, that is, the electronic picture and the memory and historical perception. The two sets of photos on the screen refer to each other, and not one of the versions is the so-called "correct". The life recorded by electronic products is indeed the most realistic reality, but the feelings and experiences brought to us by the current scene are left in the memory. I see it as a push and pull between reality and memory. I retain some of the slightly different sense of production regarding handiwork, which is also the inconsistency between reality and memory, in my understanding. The repetition and difference presented in this set of creations are displayed together to give a more visually solid experience, which is more likely to cause viewers to react differently to some seemingly identical and familiar scenes. This strange but familiar feeling will break some of our original stereotypes to observe and think about things we ignore because of established impressions. The LEGO figure collaged on the first piece is a more explicit hint that we need to see and think from a different perspective. For the natural world, human beings are more like "uninvited guests" breaking into this original world. The same is true of social life and cultural development. We need to adapt to these developments and change our thinking and habitual patterns.
Created By
Jamie Xue
110 x 220 cm | 43 x 87 in
Unframed
2023