Shouhui Lu
中文版
From birth to death, an individual is returning and cycling. An individual's life is full of failures and repeated writing and erasure.
Works in 2025
My artistic practice uses traditional Chinese rice paper as the core material carrier, and constructs a unique visual grammar system by deconstructing the physical boundaries of heterogeneous materials such as ink, mineral pigments, and oil pastels. In the past 30 years, I have gradually felt from the changes in daily life that all beautiful things are covered with a layer of painful gauze on the surface. The life of an individual is a repetitive writing and erasing. Many seemingly beautiful things hide deep pain behind them. Individuals are also experiencing various pains and struggles in today's rapidly developing social trends. My works are based on this as a starting point to express the incompleteness, struggles and pains of individuals in today's society. Concepts play a pivotal role in my works. I often use everyday objects and various plants, flowers, fruits and seeds in life to replace the "individual" of human beings, and use some image symbols in daily life to convey or metaphorically convey the struggles and pains experienced by individuals. For example, mosaics are metaphors for the pain, extinction and unreality of individuals, while black and white cordons and local snow screen effects are metaphors for the various "failures" and dangers encountered by individuals in their lives. The blurring of the local edges of objects is a metaphor for the passage of time, and the red clouds are a metaphor for anxiety. The interpenetration of objects is also a metaphor for the pains encountered by individuals in their lives, such as branches interpenetrating into the body of another object. I use the permeability of rice paper and the super plasticity of ink to form a dialectical dialogue with the expressive tension of oil pastels. This cross-media experiment not only expands the contemporary dimension of traditional materials, but also resonates the material language with the expression of concepts, and finally solidifies on the screen into a survival map of contemporary individuals struggling in technical rationality and spiritual dilemmas.
Works in 2024
These works are created with chinese ink, Chinese painting pigments, watercolors, oil pastels, and markers on xuan paper or cardboard. I have been trying to find more contemporary possibilities for painting on traditional paper materials.
Some other paintings
Paintings on cardboard
"Live 2024" series
The on-site series before 2024 is to express the individual life and work place as the scene to express the comprehensive materials. The scene where the individual lives contains all kinds of objects, and there is an indelible relationship between the things and the individual. The new items are constantly filled in life, and the new and old "identities" have been repeated and changed. Today's new things will quickly become old things tomorrow. Sometimes people are similar to these things, and time will turn the new people into old people. Looking back, it is already a matter of people. The live series before 2024 The work aims to express the relationship between people and things in time and space, and the traces left by those objects under the catalysis of time, with a touch of sadness. And the new live series of "Live 2024" after 2024 is also on the basis of the previous one, and people are also regarded as a part of things and specific, such as various Flowers, seeds, etc., anthropomorphize them, and place them prominently in the center of the screen, which is also in the "" site" (each of us stays in our own space Countless traces of life), and add mosaic and snow screen effects, etc. to illustrate the various "malfunctions" and pains that individuals encounter in life, because in In my opinion, all the beautiful surfaces are covered with a layer of painful tulle, and the individual will experience countless pains in the long river of time, and eventually the dust will return to the dust, and the soil will return to the soil.