Video: Come Home: Layered Painting by Christine Wu
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If we consider art as a projection of the artist's personality, then Christine Wu may seem like a harsh and even cruel person. Her figurative painting is filled with dark symbolism, muted colors and plots, which in psychiatry could testify to the splitting of consciousness.
Wu's paintings explore the conflict between life and death, the rational and the unconscious, and express the inner struggle through which the artist's creative alter-ego passes on the path of accepting her own femininity. They seem to be specially written so that the viewer feels an uncomfortable chill in the spine. However, in life, Christine is a rather open and cheerful person. “I’m not trying to make my work depressing and anxious on purpose, although such reviews are fine with me,” the artist laughs. "It seems to me that any emotional reaction speaks of the success of a work of art, because it means that the work is thought-provoking, creating a space for dialogue."
Many paintings refer to the theme of death and extinction, but in Wu's interpretation, this is more of a metaphorical death - the completion of another development cycle, and not the final verdict. The artist is worried about the problems of renunciation and overcoming - those people, memories, and objects that a person is forced to give up in order to continue to grow and improve.
“Of course, I don’t think being obsessed with death, like any other idea, is healthy human behavior, but I really think people should think about serious things more often when they’re ready to think,” explains Christine. "I feel like people don't think too often, because it's always easier to do something that doesn't require effort, like watching TV, or listening to pop music, or even turning on the radio, where everything has already been chosen and decided for you." "It seems to me that it is much more unhealthy behavior to ignore the obvious fact that a person is mortal, because it is like denying life itself" - adds the artist.
Christine Wu's paintings are multi-layered in every sense of the word, from painting techniques, which are characterized by incomplete overlapping of layers of paint, creating a transparency effect, to “multiplied” characters that look like storyboards used in making films and animation, collected on one screen. According to the artist, such a multilevel image is associated with the idea of growth and movement, as well as with the ghosts that inhabit our subconscious.
Wu puts into her work the meanings that are personally important to her, not really caring about whether the audience is able to decipher them: “I've always liked the ambiguity. I think it is very important for real art. Only if the work leaves the viewer room for interpretation, he begins to feel his involvement."
Christine Wu is currently preparing to open her solo show Come Home, which will take place on November 1st at a gallery in Los Angeles, in parallel with the opening of Paul Kudunaris' photography exhibition Heavenly Bodies. …
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