The Afternoon

作品賞析

WU Mei-Xuan is a skilled print artist and her creations revolve around settings and objects from her memory. She would start her creation process by interacting with her memories and taking photographs that re-examines her past to capture that brief spark of inspiration. The Afternoon made use of the overlapping effects achieved via screen printing as well as smudging and spreading of acrylic paint in order to arrive at rational and objective interpretations and extract visual moments of her memories just like activating the camera’s shutters, resulting in images of varying degrees of clarity. These images are then reassembled to form a complete composition. Blurry details in the work serve as trails of exploration in the imaging process, while the enigmatic blank spot in the middle generate a mysterious area where reality coincides with fantasy. The creative process not only represents the artist’s self-exploration process, but also helps the viewers to review and appreciate the work more deeply.