A liquid truth
An artist working across different mediums, Xue Mu conceptualises alternatives to a conventional life experience.
Viewers are embraced in monochromatic and minimalist installations and confronted with large-scale drawings and photographs that demand attention and contemplation.
By deconstructing Rodin’s “The Thinker” and Michelangelo’s David, “Liquid Truth”, Xue Mu presents a body of work created through a series of re-photographing, where the iconic images are subjected to distortion, repeatedly photographed in the process. The playful distortion of the three-dimensional statue is rendered in two-dimensions, depicting a layering of visual and conceptual experiences, each more removed from the first.
“Liquid Truth” questions the reliance on interpretation of existing knowledge, and so Mu’s work creates a perceptual distance from the original and its associations, deconstructing subjectivity in the process of understanding. The distance from an original evokes an awareness of the fixedly familiar ways in which our lives seem to be organised.
A visual artist based in Amsterdam and Nanjingm Xue Mu is an alumnus of de Rijksakademie Voor Beeldende Kunsten (2011-2012), Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2009) and Dutch Art Institute (2006). Between 2013 and 2015 her projects were presented in art institutions at de Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, de Appel Arts Centre, He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen and AMNUA Nanjing.
Mu has also been commissioned several times for public art projects in the Netherlands.
Her abstract artworks and deconstructions are on show until March 19 at Yeo Workshop, Gillman Barracks, 1 Lock Road, Singapore 108 932, in Singapore.
Visit www.YeoWorkshop.com/exhibitions/xue-mu-liquid-truth
