Luo Shuhang Solo Exhibition —— Outside The Door
From Outside the Door to Once Upon a Land, Luo Shuhang ventured into a narrative journey concerning body and space.
“Once Upon a Land” creates intertextuality between painted images and images, even a dialogue that spans time and space.
Such an intertextual approach is similar to the “colophons” in traditional painting. The appearance of colophons marks
another transformation of the painting, from a single image to a scroll composed of images and text. If one considers
a scroll as a whole, the inscriptions and postscripts of the paintings carried out by the collectors of the past dynasties include
texts that span time.
Once Upon a Land Series, 2020
To some extent, Luo Shuhang’s creation can be regarded as another way of the colophon, and it is also the commentary on the
paintings of predecessors by later artists. It’s just that the content of the epilogue is not based on literature and calligraphy, but
images; it is not outside the frame of the original work, but embedded in the frame.
Therefore, the original context is resolved. In the traditional landscape paintings, nature and figures are very well integrated, and usually those figures represent the literati. Nevertheless, what appears in Luo’s work are ordinary people: an aunt who buys
vegetables, a master craftsman, a man in pajamas, a female student standing on the top of the hill, etc. These realistic figures
blend into the original paintings, reconstruct the context, and form a tension between the traditional and the contemporary.
The other series of Luo Shuhang’s works all express the sense of illusion based on the real thing: “Sink” is the appearance of
objects drawn away from daily experience, and “Moss” shows the overlap of the scenes seen. The overall presentation of
the exhibition is a tranquil atmosphere, which is a subtle texture brought by traditional painting elements and rice paper
materials, and the exhibition is placed through a dynamic video on a vertical axis, where the shadow of the bright moon
appears. However, when viewing these works carefully, there is always a picture that becomes the viewer’s “punctum”,
and even transforms into a certain uncertainty. In the video work “Dust”, the viewer seems to be transformed into dust in
the universe, and this sense of anxiety becomes stronger and stronger with the live sound.
The art of photography records the slices of time, and Luo’s work spreads out the folds of time.
Moss series, 2020 Sink series, 2020 Dust series, 2020
Outside the Door series, 2020
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