The exhibition "Real-Life Fairy Tales" reflects female artists’ contemplation on social reality. Unlike their male counterparts who express their attention to reality in a direct, intensive, and non-conceptual manner, they seem to intentionally represent their observation of life in an opaque way. They intend to extend their dream world and maintain their fairy-tale-like imagination with their artworks. In a sense, this way has become a methodology of art which is unique to China’s female artists.

We can see from the artworks of the exhibition that many artists combine silk, cotton and the color red to display their art style marked by a fairy tale and they demonstrate the uniqueness of China’s female art. What makes Chinese female art different from its Western counterpart is that Western female art typically revolves around women’s rights, whereas Chinese female art seems to attach more importance to traditional values, the reflection of reality and art itself. The eleven female artists are very good examples of this.

Curator: Liu Chunfeng