Ni Hao
The artist ponders the nature of painting. The very personal colors and shapes in his paintings contain metaphors that are full of characteristics of the times. Various ideas that have emerged in the tide of the times are the result of the artist's attempts to navigate and explore the gap between different, even fragmented value systems and spaces. The artist uses what he sees and thinks as a starting point to focus on and expose the contradictory consciousness of life, with the aim of “Reframing the Present”. The artist has a knack for using bold and assertive brushstrokes to create life episodes of his characters, presenting strange and contradictory everyday scenes in whimsical tones and mischievous shapes, making his works more surreal and expressive. Scenes in his paintings seem to have frozen at a dramatic point, but images allude to those events that preceded and followed them, guiding the viewer to contemplate the larger narrative behind them: against the backdrop of the world's current extreme climates and escalating regional conflicts, the fate of most individuals, like those characters and animals in his paintings, is also shrouded in gloom, with a hidden unease that can only be heard in silence.