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Paper - Ink
by EC Gallery
Location: EC Gallery
Artist(s): WU Xue Lian
Date: 23 Nov - 10 Dec 2012

With the classic Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, the white space represents the Yang - Light and the black space symbolizes the Yin - Shadow. It is used to describe how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn in relation to each other.

Wu Xue Lian is always fascinated by such relationship and exercises in her works. She often decomposes an image into positive and negative space. She uses detailed backgrounds fill with fine ink wash and brush strokes, but left the subjects blank. In a way, the blank paper area becomes the focus point, but it is as important as the background which she made most effort on.

Wu inherited the traditional Chinese ink techniques but expresses her creativities in an unconventional direction. Instead of painting something on a surface, the idea of manipulating the space and relation between negative and positive space, background and foreground, becomes her main subject matter.

“My painting connected closely with my life: important figures around me, moments in my life, things I have seen, they are parts of and where my life is complete. My painting is about emerging the fragments of them from my heart and memories or their images projected into my life” says the artist.

Born in Hubei Province in 1978, Wu Xue Lian studied at China Central University of Nationalities and completed Bachelor degree in 1999. Later she continued to pursue further education and obtained a Master of Fine Art from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. Currently, Wu resides in Beijing as a career artist and she is also a lecturer at the Beijing Information Science & Technology University. Her works have been exhibited in numerous cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Nantong, Paris, Wuhan, Macao and Hong Kong.

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