​My work probes the way the materiality of painting questions and defies the virtualization of the images that inundate our lives. The integration of other mediums in my work seeks to incite our eyes to be reflexive on the things that sculpt our relation to reality.

My work expresses the way globalised history incarnates itself in our existences, depicting the tension between the simplicity and fragility of the everyday life and the inexorability of the historical forces that underlie it.

As a Chinese artist exiled in France, I explore the question of memory in the context of the erosion of our relation to the past; at the same time, my work also questions Western societies’ relation to their memory in the way it is obstructed by the spectacularization of our time and the desensitization of our gazes. In my eyes, figurative painting becomes a weapon to assert the materiality of reality and the impossibility to remain in the abstraction of timelessness, thus challenging the virtualization of our time and the evasion from collective emotionality.

My exploration of the materiality of painting tends toward universality through the experimentation of the confrontation and the penetration of abstract and figurative representations as well as Western and Chinese aesthetics.