Tang Contemporary Art Center recently announced its representation of Hong Kong artist Jade Ching-yuk Ng, a post-90s artist, and held her first solo exhibition as their representative titled “氵GUSH,” showcasing nearly 20 stunning paintings and woodcut works.
“The radical 「氵」 originates from the artist’s imagination of the form of water sources. This radical can be combined to form any form of water, such as tears, bodily fluids, bodies of water, rain clouds, and other substances. It is ever-changing and coexists with all things, becoming an indispensable element of the human body and nature. At the same time, it also constitutes the flowing relationship between the human body and all things in nature.”
“GUSH” is like the process of a fountain or geothermal eruption, where the power of life accumulates secretly and then bursts out, just like the way human emotions emerge from the deep to the surface. Wu Jingyu is trying to explore the narrative depiction of characters, the complex coordination of mythology, history, and reality, and the internal and external perspectives on the relationship between the universe and human emotions.
Wu Jingyu’s paintings condense styles such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism from art history, overflowing with a primitive yet contemporary visual beauty. She uses the human body as a creative subject, seeking an ideal human emotion in her works. The intertwining and touching between characters in her pieces generate a multi-dimensional and complex experience of intimacy and distance, opening up a humorous, contradictory, passionate, and subtle artistic expression.
Influenced by the vibrant Central Asian mosaic murals, Wu Jingyu likes to use color to divide the picture, and her intuition for color carries symbolic meaning. The flattened human body is filled with the infiltration of constructing forms. She constructs romantic scenes with quirky and distorted body structures, burying details with Easter eggs, giving rise to a mysterious and contradictory atmosphere, while also exploring the artist’s views on gender.
Wu Jingyu Solo Exhibition “Water”
Date: From now until January 16th
Time: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Location: Contemporary Tangren Art Center, 10th floor, 80 Queen’s Road Central, Central
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