My work depicts spaces that represent a symbolic present, finding conflict in the insensitive banality of life. Looking at the environment in which I live in a cold, silent, absurd way, I make work on the boundary between elegance and vulgarity.   

 

I have been influenced by post-modern debates around the simulacrum, (Baudrillard) and appropriation, (Buchloh) and theoretically and practically I am influenced by Pop Art, e.g. the deadpan yet vibrant colour David Hockney’s Californian paintings and the spatial playfulness in Patrick Caulfield work.

 

In my work，I insist on an orderly painting that is not influenced by the circumstances of my life.  Drawing on memory and symbolism, I simplify the shapes of images placed in real or fictional spaces, disturbing the viewer through suggestion, in a subjective way that manages to generate reverie，and evoke an uncanny feelings.

 

My work always erases traces of the gesture of painting. Soft brushes are used throughout the painting process to smooth out the image, and tape is used to create a rational image and to create a sense of detachment similar to that of an electronic work. I have been experimented with the unique syntax of painting in my artwork, building false 3D effects within a 2D plane.

 

The initial concept unfolds in the form of appropriation, the space and things I see are subjectively manufactured, evolved and reshaped, and the elements take their places in a symbolic space.   My dual identities as manipulator and performer, absurd and skillful, both guide and perplex the viewer.