Jiawei Fu and Wenjüe Lu’s duo exhibition took place in downtown Los Angeles from January 8th to 13th, 2022, at Beyorslf Gallery, featuring selected artworks from two artists who both treasure the little moments and details of life.
© Wenjüe Lu
Jiawei Fu is an interior designer who explores the relationships between human and non-human existence through her paintings. Her works blend a surrealized interpretation of the aforementioned relationship and egg yolk driven pigmentations. She utilizes the understated medium of keeping a diary, turning her personal entries into visualized reflections initially on her surroundings and gradually and eventually on herself. Jiawei wishes to carve through the relentlessness and ignorance arising from the underappreciation of a certain sameness, and the subtle uniqueness through the depiction of mundanity.
© Wenjüe Lu
Wenjue Lu is both a designer of her eponymous fashion label and an artist focusing on textile and soft sculptures. Through the everlasting process of rethinking and refining, she uses textile as a medium to both explore inward and express outward. By infusing traditional hand-stitch, the emphasis on the texture of handmade articles, and thoughtfully reinterpreting the presentation of the natural state of different fiber, she devotes herself to expressing her own understandings on the relationship between mankind and materiality, carefully maneuvering between the lines of the different states of the same substance.
© Wenjüe Lu
In this special exhibition, Jiawei’s painting collection Aftermath is meant to capture the unforgettable moments of life, the solemnity in the soul, and the realism in the most casual scenes. Wenjue’s selected textile artworks from the Untitled Poem seek to become the materialistic translation of a eulogy praising the intrinsic romance of mother nature that is deeply personal and sensual. Both artists delve into the delicacy and the ephemeralness of living in a certain moment: Jiawei carefully documents; Wenjue documents carefulness. Under different mediums, the two artists establish the emotional and spiritual connection between individual and the world, expressing their methods of narrating details. Whether it’s Jiawei adopting egg yolk into her pigment experiments or Wenjue introducing Sashiko to her textile explorations, they both offer a channel bridging traditional techniques with the personal reinventions of these traditions. Together, their works blend into one space of unison, of egg yolk brush strokes and cotton hand stitches, of moments and movements, of stillness and stories.
/Untitled/
All verbs inflect,
All nouns shift,
Me and the sun never switch places.
In silent making the wish was I,
demand to whomever for another, whom,
Amid such tranquility,
Sense the romance that’s not love.
Wenjüe Lu, 2020
/Aftermath/ does not always means trauma or bad, but rather the awakening of oneself.
In the time where people start returning to their “default” or ordinary life, start paying more attention to things that are happening around them, and start to appreciate and protect what they have. Aftermath does not always refer to terrible end, but rather the awaken of oneself, the solemnness in the soul, and the born of meaningful harvest. We realize, and we move toward a better direction. This series depicts the most casual and innocent moment in everyone’s life. Artist uses limited color palette to promote the absence of PURE BLACK. Continue experience and experiment with egg yolk and acrylic, every painting has its unique texture and colors.
Jiawei Fu 2021
See more of their works on jiawei-fu.com and wenjuelu.com.
