Wenhui Hao

b. 2000, Taiyuan

 

Wenhui Hao lives and works in Beijing and London. Wenhui’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in painting, centred around reconstructing personal narrative practices. The artist addresses themes such as female desire and diseases, sexual violence, bodily trauma, and medical pathology. She depicts dismantled and hollowed-out food (Body) subjected to violence in her paintings. Wenhui sees the process of painting as akin to the practice of suturing and repairing in medical pathology. The imagery of the body undergoes repeated “destruction” and “restoration” within abstract and layered brushstrokes, cascading into imbalance and descent amid the unpredictable flow of liquids. It deconstructed and transcripted the intense emotions that intertwine in an intimate relationship, which forms a mixture of experience of harm and care.

Untitled 1, 2024

Oil on Canvas

150 x 100cm

Untitled 2, 2024

Oil on Canvas

150 x 100cm

'I have been observing and painting food for some time now, and there are many inherent connections between appetite and love, the primal desire to abandon the intellect, the desire to satisfy desire. The process of dismantling food and cooking it is violent, and the process of manipulating it at will is an outlet for repressed desires.'

-- Wenhui

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