Yuan Hui-Li (b. 1963) considers tradition
as the fountainhead of her artistic expression, but also as an object of
reflection. Her practice stretches across diverse media, from varying
two-dimensional mediums, to three-dimensional installation, to digital imagery,
through which she attempts to rejuvenate the existing aesthetics vocabulary of
form and meaning, and to offer a new perspective on what may have been
neglected in the broader art-historical narrative. “THEY Shanshui”,
where she creates a world of hybridity and juxtaposed dissimilitude; digitally
altered “THEY Shanshui”, where a composite of “THEY
Shanshui” and an ancient classical masterpiece upturns the
conventional context and structure of traditional ink painting; and More
Is Less, where her approach to the accumulated ink method conjures
temporality.