SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Jiawei
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UNITED STATES
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“I dedicate my works to challenge the 'dullness' of human thought process: promote the need of stimulating and cultivating our own imagination and consciousness through our normal life. Celebrating the 'sameness' in everyday life to create the special and genuine story to each individual, to myself.”
Community can't be formed without communication. It is crucial for human being to reveal the story that exist in each unique space. Through composing different sensations, we transform the meaning to not only to the surfaces but also to the emotion of human body.
Whenever you wake up that morning, it will always be another “ZOOM” day. You wake up, sit, eat, and go back to sleep, and start to have a hard time to differentiate yourself with the cat who is laying right next to you.
Jiawei was born in Guangzhou, China. Since the very beginning of her memory, the word “communication” has never left her life. Her family always taught that “language” was not the only way to talk to others. It can be done in a gesture, in an expression, or even in a long laugh. At the age of sixteen, Jiawei came to the United States by herself. Facing the barriers between different languages and cultures, she started to find a better way that let various groups communicate within each other.
You don’t remember how many puzzles you finished these weeks. Your muscles of your arms memorize the order, always trying to complete the emptiness from the breach. Even try to repair the missing pieces in your life.
After dabbling in painting in high school, she chose to walk into Interior Design at Pratt Institute in New York and was trying to deepen and strengthen her own understanding toward the sensation. As a designer, Jiawei has been working on projects from small restaurant renovations to designing multi-floor office spaces. Yet, the understanding of different spatial quality, the ability to design both conceptually & realistically, and the experiences with multiple options cannot really answer her question: What is the trigger point that reveals the human emotion and sensation in a space?
“What is the trigger point that reveals the human emotion and sensation in a space?”
Where are we holding on to our emotions when we are facing the cold screen 24/7? Keeping and bringing the question with her, Jiawei started to apply the Interior Design concept into painting. She explored and challenged how the different properties of acrylic influence human emotion, and how those properties convey a feeling toward human beings. After much research and interviews from several projects, Jiawei found her direction to the answer right before the beginning of Covid-19.
During the quarantine period, Jiawei finished her “Quarantine Series”. This series of paintings reveal and was inspired by the daily life of herself under the Covid-19 Era. People including herself are numbed by the tedious “stay home” life. Life at that point had become a loop, it runs through the same things over and over, day after day. It is not about joy anymore but rather about despairing, sentimental, and losing control. Jiawei dedicated her paintings to search for new languages that can raise people’s resonance.
She realized that the emotion of a space is cultivated by the objects within it; the emotion of an object is reflected by the person who is viewing it. The angle of a seating is crucial, the thickness of a layer of paint is crucial. Everything is starting from the details. Because all spaces and objects are the very existence of their stories, the goal of both design and painting is to translate and transform each story into a language that its audiences and users understand and appreciate.
The fog is so clean that you can see particles flying in your bathroom. They travel from the shower-head, to the wall, to the floor, to the mirror, eventually, to your face.
“The emotion of a space is cultivated by the objects within it; the emotion of an object is reflected by the person who is viewing it.”
It is the beginning of winter, surprisingly. You adopted a new born baby into your warm arm, your long dead plant popped out a newborn spread. Surprisingly, it is only the beginning of winter, but spring has settled down here.
During the quarantine period, Jiawei finished her “Quarantine Series”. This series of paintings reveal and was inspired by the daily life of herself under the Covid-19 Era. People including herself are numbed by the tedious “stay home” life. Life at that point had become a loop, it runs through the same things over and over, day after day. It is not about joy anymore but rather about despairing, sentimental, and losing control. Jiawei dedicated her paintings to search for new languages that can raise people’s resonance.
Before, let’s take a selfie! You and you always stand still and try to find out the best position. Right now, let’s take a selfie! You and you continue walking and let the phone do its work.
Here was the beginning of egg yolk, egg white, and alcohol. Jiawei started to mix everyday objects with acrylic to experience and experiment different outcomes. She tried to utilize the smoothness and stickiness of an egg to elevate and reduce the texture of heavy body acrylic.
Oldest cat: Tuo Tuo
She invited the spectator to immerse themselves into each painting, seeing themselves as both the character and object in each setting.
Middle cat: Bo Bo
“The goal of both design and painting is to translate and transform each story into a language that its audiences and users understand and appreciate.”
Youngest cat: Mu Mu
Continuing her exploration, Jiawei later started her new series “Aftermath 2021” to keep emphasizing the importance of the mundane. Mundane as everyday life art but inspiring through the struggle and awakening of oneself. The detail becomes the linkage to communicate with one another. She promoted that we, as humans, need to stimulate our own consciousness through our normal life, and use what we have to tell a genuine story. The entire series is a reflection of not only her stories but everybody else’s.
Ah the door is still locked. Ah the street is still quiet. Ah the air is still not clean. Ah your body is still on the bed. AHHH your leg is now your bed.
Most of Jiawei’s works are focused on the details of simple moments. Her works notice the human tendency toward emotionlessness in the spaces that we occupy. She often moves attention toward the spatial details by blurring the facial features and creating textures in different areas. Looking into it, you will find out that Jiawei’s works are uncovering the “dullness” of human thought process, advocating the need of our own imaginations, and celebrating the “sameness” in everyday life to create the special and personal communication to each individual, to herself. The nature of her paintings is forcing people to do a complete self-examination and search for “joy” out of the blue. Without a shadow of doubt.
When you look at your screen, the screen is looking at you too. The screen doesn’t have a face, you don’t have a face. It is the infinite reflection of loneness.