Wan Zhenyu’s works are full of imagination and interpretation of the future. He arranges for all kinds of people and incidents from the real world to meet by accident, giving rise to a strange sensory world. The works of the artist resemble a magic cube bringing people into varied suppositions of fortunes.

“Unconscious creation” is a notable feature of Wan Zhenyu’s works. The artist places realistic images into surreal spaces and through the artistic means of juxtaposition, superposition, interlacing, rotation and integration, to name a few, deciphers and deconstructs the authentic images in an abstract manner, resulting in a visual experience that is both familiar and alienated. Evidently, the artist does not intend to narrate stories; it may be suggested that images in his works do not convey any practical significance, and all the facts in the real world serve only as some kind of incentive, triggering a glint of the future. Nobody is sure of the future and Wan Zhenyu is no different. It may be inferred that he is responding in an unconscious manner and using daily experience as a carrier of the future. The experiences depicted on the canvas differ not in significance but coexist in harmony, presenting a supreme state of ideals, which is exactly what the artist hopes for at the bottom of his heart.

The unconscious manner of brush strokes also reflects the artist’s concern about and suspicion of reality. The sense of alienation that results from the decomposition of various incidents stems from the artist’s uncertainty of the reality. While giving shape to a picturesque scene, the artist leaves us a series of questions and doubts.