爱若丝绢，雯如其人

Liu Xuefei (刘雪飞)

Drawer

Designer

Intro:

It ‘s through Chen Dongfan, the graffito artist I’ve interviewed months ago, that I’ve made acquaintance of a group of young people mesmerized in art, who have opened a door for me as a laypeople to take a peek into a completely different world. Cheng Ran left me most remembrance of the classic films I’ve put aside for a long time and offered me a totally novel way to make a video; Chen Dongfan intrigued my fantasy of a magic realm in which everything has its own metaphor. When it comes to Liu Xuefei, a quiet and silent girl who prefers to interpret her thought by ink drawing on anything she can imagine, I discovered another feature of art, an exterior tranquility with an interior turbulence.  

To be honest, it’s not easy to understand her works when I came to see her display the first time, all of which were drawn by ink and wash on gauzes of various sizes. She has special penchant on vegetation - inland or by sea, alive or dead but all in simple posture – and I guess this is why I found it difficult to find something profound. Then it suddenly dawned on me that there must have something indispensable in each of her works: the sprawling deep dark branch in different directions contrasted by its light background. The contrast, I guess, embodies the reflection of her contemplation to reality and her attitude to life. Seemingly silent, Xuefei bears great torrent in her heart and she is always ready to counter-combat the unfairness, cruelty and hypocrisy by her tranquility.