“Love me? Love him? ” is a quotation from the artist’s personal love affair 12 years ago. It is also a query from a woman to a man. The video “Hand warms ice” recorded the process where the artist held blocks of ice in the shape of a man's hand and had them melted with the warmth from her hands. The whole procedure took about one and a half hour. It was cut down to a 15-minute video for the exhibition.

Rui Wang was born in China in 1979. She graduated from MFA Program (Digital and Multi-Media arts), School of Design, China Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2009. She graduated from MFA Program (Electronic Integrated Arts), Alfred University in USA in 2012. Her recent major exhibitions include: The Visual Rhetoric of The Young’s Generation (Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, 2013); The 10th Beijing Independent Film Festival (Beijing, 2013); Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival (Malaysia , 2013).

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Image: © Rui Wang