Light At Light

In the art world, there are people that dislike fitting into the existing social order and mingling with the common. They separate themselves from the mainstream, both in conduct and creation, and avoid getting involved in worldly matters.

JingYu Xu is an example of an artist who wants to remain detached from reality carnival. Her vision comes from independent imagination devoid of social reality. Her artwork has a presence of wild indulgence, with qualities of Lolita's complex and Gothic enchantment. It incorporates an allegoric and surreal context - what one can understand as the direct unfolding of her life experiences and state of mind. It intends to symbolize key images, of angels and sheep herds, thus endowing her artworks with visual force and effect. The consequence expresses the intersection between reality and illusion, the mutual absorption between vulnerability and endurance, and the conflict of such relationships.

Xu's art does not capture the complexity of reality in an apparent manner. Her detachment from reality helps preserve the details of the creation process, allowing the texture of painting, photography, and installation to be seen clearly.

One of the most important allegorical details in her work includes her immortal angel wings. It symbolized her aspiration, endurance, and hope in our chaotic world. What's more, Xu's goal is to seek for a fragile individual hidden in the vast chaos, through the state of subtle feeling. It is a truthful representation of the imagined inner world, an abstract reality reflected from within. It attaches a value to solitude, free self-expression and distinction condensed from chaos.