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.







    Statement

    1.
    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.

    2.
    From birth to death, an individual is returning and cycling. An individual's life is full of failures and repeated writing and erasure. 

    Today's entire social environment has become complex and changeable, and each of us is struggling to reach the end in the big waves of today's era. In this process, the individual and the entire society have a subtle relationship at all times, or various contradictions and conflicts. The natural world with people as the main body will inevitably have various contradictions and frictions. I try to express the various conflicts and contradictions encountered by individuals in today's society through my works. The struggles and various pains experienced by individuals in today's changing times have become an important part of life. Pain and happiness are commensurate, and it can even be said that people spend most of their time in pain. Various fears, various difficult choices, various spiritual pains, various emotional changes, etc. Therefore, individuals are constantly in friction with everything around them, and many problems are generated. I try to express these problems that tiny individuals are experiencing and encountering in the current society through the re-transformation of art.

    "Scars" have always been present in his works. He can always see the risks and "scars" behind the glamorous things. He always believes that the things we often see are far from being as beautiful as we imagine, especially in today's increasingly complex social situation (the reality we cannot avoid contains various problems that are closely related to us, and there are inevitable contradictions between these problems and us, and this contradiction is also constantly pushing us to have a relationship with this society). This inevitable "scar" is in opposition to and coexists with today's social development. This contradiction cannot be eliminated, and when individual life has a relationship with this society, "scars" will inevitably be produced. 

    Secondly, his works also reveal the "struggle" of tiny individual lives. In the current extremely complex social situation, each of us is struggling to move towards the end of life, struggling to realize our long-cherished wish in life, and completing this major issue of life when facing today's society. "Struggle" is also the self-burning of individual life, and the instinctive reaction of individual life to the current society. "Struggle" is also a true portrayal of the current society's double attack on people's material and spiritual needs.