Jia Juan Li's intimism is rooted in a dual culture, Chinese and French, thanks to which she masters pictorial techniques for an art whose arcana she dominates not without a certain grandeur. This implies a constancy in surpassing oneself, resorting to modest feelings in order to increase the poetic capacity of painting. So many qualities which contribute to the eloquence of a style, carrying a generalizable decorative principle. Painter of emotion, she simplifies forms from a line that accentuates their structure and character. It schematizes to better encourage wandering. From the alliance between her assimilation of the painting of the Song dynasty, and the painting of the Nabis (a filiation that she does not deny) is born a language of seriousness and melancholy suggesting the dream of a stylized life.

However far her ability to communicate poetry of the soul goes, she nonetheless orders a seemingly banal universe, which only her qualities as a designer and colorist transfigure. His pictorial and atmospheric style works wonders. It is imbued with an unreal light, neither that of the rising sun, nor that of the setting sun, but that, capable of introducing a feeling of enigma that nothing lets us suspect in these naturalistic subjects as thoughtful as they are tasty. With her representations of portraits of women, gardens, empty interior scenes or those animated by characters, she displaces reality, attenuates its distorting aggressiveness, in favor of meditation, invaded as it is by an immense restrained in his fervent gesture. This one explores the space for a mysterious interior adventure open on the introspection of all that is offered to him at the same time from near and far.

- Lydia Harambourg