Artists: Gao Ge, Hua Shuchen, Liu Yichao, Tom Wixo
Duration: 2023/3/26-5/7

The etymology of the word Reflection has a double meaning in this exhibition. The main idea is to offer another point of view on what is experienced in contemporary daily life through the artists’ eyes，proposes a humanistic approach to observe, reflect, and change for the better. We are living in a very special time with its economic instabilities, cultural conflicts, social upheavals, uncertainties…. The second meaning is to reflect an image or a meaning. The exhibition examines daily practices, ingrained moments, the passing of, and our perception of time, interior and exterior space - both physical and psychological, and our relation and reflection to it in the structure of different forms and colors of artists.

Tom Wixo's paintings use repetitive image to describe a contemporary self-experience. These ephemeral images of garden floral, cowboy, rodeo, country music, and pop culture are broken up, erased, and reassembled like camouflages, making it hard to see their boundaries. Behind the surface lies a system of fractured pictorial planes. These fragmented planes constitute a space for the viewer to think and to generate meaning. But the sheer familiarity that enables one to recognize these symbols is the same familiarity that enables them to dominate the dimensions of culture and reality. Repeated images are constantly changing and freely exist in the mind, they are so intimate that we accommodate each other in the perception of space, psychology, and atmosphere of creativeness and reflect in the construction of modern life.

Landscape and life scenes are the themes of Gao Ge's continuous creation. She is obsessed with the study of "light”，using bold and bright colors to construct orderly images in artistic practice to express her thoughts and reflections on everyday things. Gao Ge observes natural things, refines and reshapes the expression forms in her paintings, and expresses the connection between emotion and artistic experience through colors and shapes. She looks for hidden variables and the logic behind her work, strictly controls each output of each stroke with rational thinking, and create order on the edge of the figurative to the abstract. Under this restraint, small moments are vividly depicted in the fluid "light": a girl next to an exquisite afternoon tea, an orange tree laden with golden fruits, and a dessert man in the park... In this reality Gao Ge reaches the audience further in response to the changing external world with orderly colors.

Hua Shuchen depicts the combination of space and still life, which is the image residue left by different moments in her eyes. She said, I hope to deliver a multiple- dimensional perception and atmosphere through the picture, rather than stating a straightforward event. The stacking of white linear brushstrokes in "Summer Flowers" (2022) allows the audience to focus on the relationship between the plant and the container, viewing the whole as an onlooker, but taking a step closer to focus on the details to participate in the undercurrent of emotion inside the object. There seems to be a certain meaning among the pictorial planes, positive and negative space. But when the forms in the painting begin to identify themselves, they were endowed with new meanings.

Liu Yichao's works depict the fragments of the mundane, discoveries and thoughts in personal life, and record the ordinary things and some memories of the present. By painting the hazy images, the traces of real life are entrusted to the works. Yichao basically uses light as a clue in his creations, adjusts the color relationship and blurs the outline of randomly shot or collected pictures, and corps to become the basic. He often lingers in thinking about the relationship between colors, and deliberately stays away from traditional tracing and photocopying of scenes. He blurs the shape of the object, emphasizes the color, and brings the flavor of vagueness through his contour process, which triggers the reflection of our inherent perception and re-examines the seemingly mundane but overlooked beauty in life.