Ruozhe Xueb

🔳Ruozhe Xueb (born 1987) is a Chinese painter who is currently based in London.

Ruozhe Xue straddles the thin line between realism and dreamlike, surreal imagery.

His canvasses are pervaded by a cryptic aura, skillfully emphasized through the use of dark tones that cast a sense of timelessness and suspension upon the figures. The missing context, very often hidden or dissipating into vagueness, eludes any plausible attempt to unravel the enigma. 

Within his practice he’s interested in deconstructing the world we live in, de-familiarising it and making it absurd through the use of everyday objects.

By changing the inner logic of the visible world that surrounds us, and its relationship to the human body, he tries to intensify the psychological tension within the constructions of a painting.

He positions figures in empty but enclosed spaces, the land of nowhere, in order to construct an internal narrative on the flat surface. In his works, he tries to emanate silence, calmness, and infinity, oddness that is known, yet unable to be described.

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