Wandering III

作品賞析

Xiao Pei-I, who is good at using acrylic paint, gold and silver foil, and silk screen printing, pays attention to the ecological changes occurring around her. She has seen how life and death are always coexisting—the environment seems to be in ruins. In the spirit of Japanese ukiyo-e, she creates a fictitious landscape, but one in which she attempts to summon up useless, decayed things. Wandering III was created in 2018. Although her core technique is mainly printmaking, the work is still very painterly. The silver foil over the composition and the complex, varied palette show the richly expressive power of colors. Through its transformation of forms, this work satirizes the destruction of the environment by humans. Items from construction projects and anthropomorphized animals create a spectacle, an absurd scene, but it also has a strong allegorical style, alluding to the reality of the Anthropocene.