Yu Deng

The works of Deng yu thus carry within them a freshness, a deceptively naive and “cute" which turn out to be terribly provocative on second reading. Her favorite character, the “Tomie" avatar, the neon yellow cut-out silhouette of a little girl projected into the heart of fantastic and phantasmagorical landscapes can thus, depending on the gaze or the composition be perceived as an erect penis which enters the heart of the work, or conversely a vagina from which emerges the scene taking shape before our eyes. Its landscapes, composed of plants and animals from the marine or forest are very graphic and colorful. Both psychedelic and organic, they symbolize the explosion on the surface of the canvas, all the pent-up desires and despair that lurk in the hearts of all those who fail to express their feelings, which is worth to the artist to provoke real echoes among the young populations of the big Chinese cities.