Artist Statement

I attach great importance to the narrative in my work. I observe people's lives from my unique perspective and bring the hustle and bustle of unique experiences around me into my work. I constructed a virtual world through my childhood fantasies and memories when I lived in Beijing. I use characters to form exaggerated and crazy narratives and witty theatrical sets, showing intimate and familiar resonance. The vivid colors and the narration between the characters express the inner nature of my hidden anxiety, sadness, and unease in modern Chinese society. 

In the series "A Bizarre World", I integrate my emotions into bright colors, and exaggerated expressions with my campy imagination to create a variety of crazy funny characters and narratives. In the series "The Adventures of Dama Wang", I use Chinese aunts, individuals whose full of contradictions and collective memories in a fast-moving forward society, as a unique perspective to guide the audiences into the world of my imaginaries and use weird and exaggerated scenarios to satirize the seemingly reasonable yet impermanent life in a changing world. For me, the bright colors hide the sadness in my heart, and the collision between the characters and the joyful atmosphere in my works is to satirize the impermanence of the current time in China. However, in the noisy joy, I tell the fleeting doubt and gloom, and the precise expression and character settings amplify my depiction of emotions, making the absurdity more intense and complex. 

"Non-Fashionable Lifestyle" series depicts "urban life" in a humorous way. With the rapid development of cities, whether it is the boom in fitness in recent years or the famous places where internet celebrities love to go, everyone in a big city is shrouded in the consumerist illusion of a fashionable lifestyle. "Nuclear Family" explores the conflation of old and new ideas and the topic of modern gender relations in entertaining images that provoke us to consider modern relationships and the transformation of our sense of self. No matter what, I believe, in this world, everyone is the protagonist, and there is a show going on in every corner.