Xueyang Hu Bess
I am a multidisciplinary visual artist with a focus on painting. My works reference the intersection between sensation and emotional touch, seclusion and corporeal desire, as well as the unconscious and irrational dimensions of human existence. My practice is also concerned with applying diverse mediums and materials to realise textural possibilities. Most works are figurative paintings that lie between narrative and non-narrative, intentionally evading symbolic transformation and the representation of real space. As to the methodology of creation, I explore the poetics of imagery formed by the combining of content, colour, composition and other possible constituent elements, trying to find a balance and fusion of expression and experimentation.
The work, You & Us series 1-6 represents a kind of privately ambivalent relationship and emotional conflict between two close people or strangers. ‘You’ and ‘us’ are the two pronouns that can bring people closer together. When they are used, a speaker is no longer an observer or an outsider but instead shows an intimacy. Private emotions are shared. They are not just theirs, but more likely to be our own. By imagining the reality of your being together, we are also connected.
Yesterday, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
380mm x 285mm
Bedtime, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
295mm x 210mm
Shopping Day, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
390mm x 270mm
Mousetrap, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
285mm x 380mm
Infatuation, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
285mm x 380mm
Playing & Caring, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
285mm x 380mm
300 Days, 2020
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