Close to the Other Side-Scavenging No.4

作品賞析

The artist Wu Yongjie developed her “Close to the Other Side” series by focusing on the motif of her demolished childhood home and expressing her inner feelings about the sudden disappearance of familiar things through the visual tension of painting. She was born in a military dependents’ village, but later on happened to discover that this village, where she had lived as a child, had become a flat parcel of land overgrown with weeds. She could not find the location of her childhood home even if she wanted to. In Close to the Other Side—Scavenging no. 4, she uses an elliptical composition that adds a suggestion of some traditional oriental paintings, in which she mixes scenes from daily life and deformed memories. Through the unnatural colors and the complex scenery that includes both familiar and ambiguous elements, the desolate beauty of nostalgic memories is presented. Although the memories have faded, this blurred, beautiful vision creates feelings of tranquility, sweetness, loneliness, and abundance.