My woods are like a lost youth, 2017

Wei-Hong Ma  

Ma Wei-Hong is a Chinese artist born in 1977 who lives and works in Songzhuang in Pekin, China. She graduated from Shanxi Yuncheng College of Arts and then from the mural painting department of the prestigious CAFA in Beijing. She belongs to the Chinese Neo-Expressionist movement.

The style and appearance of Ma's current works reveal that her intention is to maintain the purity of motivation by abolishing the theme. From the paintings of Ma Wei-Hong, we can glimpse the difficult situation of our contemporary times.

Like a secret code using the narrative form as a diary and the seemingly random scribble, it conveys the anxiety, restlessness, decay, fear and ethical entanglement of our society and our personal existence to the neophyte.

Looking at his paintings, we are immersed in an intense reflection that can sometimes make us uncomfortable. Behind these confused, vague and ambiguous images hides something unpredictable and disturbing.

Things seem to exist in our dreams but sometimes they can be so similar to the real world we live in and are likely the cause of our unease and guesswork. Ma's paintings inevitably plunge us into enigma and mystery.