Liang Yuanwei, Pisces

Liang Yuanwei is a painter whose cold, strong compositions articulate a spatial relationship between color and pattern. Her working method, which aims for one-time completion and allows for no errors, hints at an extraordinary level of self-control. Pisces includes two paintings of the same name created one year apart, connected to an incident from the artist’s private life. The pattern comes from the same article of clothing, and the vast difference between the two paintings gives form to her ideas of mutability.

This artwork was featured in the UCCA exhibition "ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, ” 2013