ShanghART Gallery presents Pu Jie’s solo exhibition 'Two Different Times, One World’, showcasing 17 artworks by Pu Jie, presenting iconic representations of his juxtaposed memories as an attempt to show the fragmentary, ever-shifting and incoherent nature of life.

“The backbone of Chinese Contemporary Art is the re-pondering towards Chinese culture with a critical attitude,” says Pu Jie. Avoiding trappings of both nostalgia and stereotypes, his artworks are based on fragments of memories and experiences, which compose a contemporary narration. Pu Jie's artworks are images from his mind, the way he thinks and his philosophy; they are typically vivid monochrome of red, yellow, green, and blue with historical and contemporary conception seemingly fused into one visual body. His oeuvres depict a social structure that wavers between China's past history and its present-day contemporary developments, condensing his unique insights onto his canvases. Pu Jie states, “The adoption of a painterly dual visual angle is a partial overlapping of the past and present, East and West, communism and commodity. Such overlapping is filled with cultural mutation and confrontation. It clears up the visual effect and ponders the flowing changes of the Chinese society throughout the past decades.”

-ShanghART Singapore

Image: © Pu Jie
Courtesy of the artist and ShanghART