Blue Body, BJOY Image Gallery, 2024
This series of work contains fragments of mysterious and erotic undertone. Through printmaking and raw materiality the artist seeks to articulate the enduring relationship within body politics. 'Blue Body' showcases a series of etchings, dry-points, silkscreen, painting, video and installation. Through concealed textures and peculiar motifs, the core of the exhibition is about vulnerability and visibility, embracing the fear that many artists have endured in their career, which is often overlooked, but heroic.
NOV 23 - DEC 21 2024
BJOY IMAGE GALLERY, XIAMEN CITY
Foreword:
I fell ill last year, unable to eat, terrified of the arts, my words were stuck in my throat.
One day I made a friend, Luca, he is 14 years older. The friendship was slow, and perhaps a little odd. But there was an unspoken love and trust that existed between us. I used to sit beside him, I felt warm, like a bath. On his four persons sofa, he liked to ask me questions, ones I never thought of. Lost memories, our childhoods. My body as I enter youth, as I trade it with men for a temporary sense of safety. We are just humans Luca. Or perhaps, if I messed up my career, if I hid in fear instead of facing what’s wrong, I could create living death- but one where I call the shots.
The prints became bluer and bluer.
It became clear to me. No matter the state of mind, volatile, empathetic, fragile, joy, they are at the least, wildly authentic. And if there’s one thing Luca has taught me, is that our inner crises, outer perfection, all of them, so what?
I need to understand.
