Merging between Two Different Things

Shi Qun’s first paintings and recent paintings are all inspired by individuals that live in the current society. She picked the randomness and unconsciousness in them as the fundamental source of thinking and tried to avoid any ornament of reasons. Just like she said, she went back and forth between reality and illusion, deleted details, captured occasional moments and enlarged the unconsciousness in it.

Shi Qun has been paying attention to some different scenes in her creation. The first was to put the most common objects in real life into a totally irrelevant scene in order to create a tense and obscure scene that made the viewer doubt, lost and think, for example, Mirror and Assist Tool, Dresser. These works described a scene that two different elements co-exist and they were a monologue of inharmonious and contradicted realities today. Another series was a portrait of the deserted areas. As the economy is growing fast, high-rise buildings popped up just overnight. Therefore, deserted areas emerged in many places where only the ruins remained. The portrait of the deserted scenes enhanced the contrast of the object and background. The strongly contrastive colors also matched the theme of the paintings. They told the inner story and feeling of those who are in today’s society in an abstract language of images, for example A Deserted Bathtub and Tennis. The next series is an illustration of colors. Via overlapped and arranged colorful lines, an abstract context of art was created. Sometimes she filled the canvas with colors like an ocean. Sometimes she arranged the lines in order so that the viewers could see the essence of colors clearly or think about the artist’s attempt in a blurry image. This is another kind of exploration and experience in the world of colors, in which she reflected her love for art in a rational way. Her representative works in this period include c-Keep silent, Silence is Three Overlapped Colors.

Shi Qun has an active mind and hates to be restrained in one kind of art. As a young artist, she likes to try new things. Recently, she tried to make use of various kinds of art, including easel painting, installation, hand painting on photo paper and pasting. She kept exploring the way she could express herself. Previously she focused on extreme contrast, building with different things or reconstructing them. In this series, she rearranged or integrated different contexts, which was a new experiment from surface to cubic, from form to content. She will not set up an ending at the beginning. She was happy in the process and always amazed by what she happened to get in the process. It is a precious exploration, a bold experiment as she tried to find a better way to express her art. Never feeling satisfied in one simple way of expression is one of the traits of a young person.

In Shi Qun’s whole collection, you can always spot some mysterious and unsure elements or some dramatic feeling that she happened to have. It is just what Shi Qun pursues because she tries to eliminate any planning in her conception and inject her unconsciousness feeling deep in her mind and her purest recognition of the world into her creation. She pursues the most natural and essential part of art by relating all her feelings and thinking to the real life. She never tries to create an ideal comfortable heaven but to tell how time can be resisted and the world that cannot be resisted. Willing or not, we can’t help merging in-between or we’re always soaked in contradiction in our pursuit and exploration.