This exhibition features Peng Wei’s and five other artists’ works, exploring how to review and reinterpret materials deeply rooted in traditional Chinese culture within contemporary art - such as ceramics, silk, bamboo, paper, medicinal herbs, and wood.
The works by Peng Wei in the exhibition are a series of ink installations. In her practice, Peng first adheres traditional handmade paper onto plastic human body models. After the paper dries, she peels it off the "body" like a cicada molting its shell. She then paints various olde-worlde buildings, the Chinese scholar's gardens, pavilions, and men and women in traditional dress on the paper "body", as returning to the daily lives of dynasties past. The paper not only as a painting medium, but also as a sculptural material, presenting a transition from two-dimensional to three-dimensional space.
