When Muhan Wu was interviewed at Nan Ke Gallery, the gallery was organizing "Thus Have We Seen", a double solo exhibition by Mengfan Bai and Muhan Wu, showcasing her new installations in recent years, which explored the momentary emotions and spatial relationships underneath the urban debris from the relationship between objects and people. Curator Yusi Xiong says Muhan Wu is "one of the leading emerging abstract expressionist artists in recent years," working in a wide range of media, including installation, painting, and video. She focuses on the relationship between the basic materiality of an object and its self-consciousness, which she expresses in an almost geometric manner.
"Neo-Abstract Expressionism" is an art movement that re-emerged from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, emphasizing the diverse media and multicultural influences of its creators, focusing on emotional expression and improvisation, reflecting the It emphasizes creators' diverse media and multicultural influences, focuses on emotional expression and improvisation, and reflects artists' new thinking about contemporary society and culture. From the works in the exhibition "Thus Have We Seen", we can clearly feel the characteristics of Muhan Wu's creativity as an "emerging abstract expressionist" artist: she is driven by individual emotion, and is keen on collecting discarded architectural fragments, industrial materials, everyday objects, and even amorous objects, She is passionate about collecting discarded architectural fragments, industrial materials, daily necessities, and even amorous objects as components for her creations, and by discarding and stripping them of their original background and meaning, she explores the relationship between objects, people, and the world in the combination.
While exploring the boundaries of thinking reflected in the objects, she consciously evokes the viewers to think about their own connection with the world and themselves when examining the works. Each work is rooted in Muhan Wu's immediate response to the world as an individual, including memories of the past, inner stirrings of the future, and exploration of one's own life. She uses these suspended emotions to construct abstract and impactful shapes through tangible and various materials, transforming the objects into direct symbols through subtle modifications and organic combinations. Abandoning the symbolic meaning of the objects, she carries out a unique narrative by emphasizing the geometric space or mechanical movement forms shaped by the objects.
"There is a sense of being in the midst of life in making installations," she has always believed that objects are the medium through which individuals relate to the world, the external, and their sense of self, and has a curiosity and inquisitiveness about how objects affect people and elicit interactive responses……
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August 8, 2024
