Each Modern is pleased to present Wu MeiChi's latest solo exhibition at Each Modern. Taiwanese artist Wu MeiChi creates vibrant color images that intersect still life, studio photography, abstraction, image culture, and scientific experimentation. Her engagement with photography has produced two prior series of hyper-saturated works titled XXY - The Space of Thing and XYX - A Moveable Feast that play with the representation and physical properties of light and color through the framework of photographic image. Her latest series, YXX – The Flares, moves forward from foundational still life orientation towards grotesque malformations of lush residues and swirling gyres of color. This approach as an artist is liken to that of a researcher, each work a set of variables set in motion and documented through the tool of her camera.
In her XXY - The Space of Thing series, scenes of light and reflection are used to produce images of distorted flowers, stones, and geometric shapes. With XYX - A Moveable Feast, plastic sheets, glassware, and fruits are distorted even more, stretched and duplicated in myriad ways across textured surfaces. Works from this series were exhibited in the group show Summer Showcase II, at aura gallery taipei in in 2017.
YXX – The Flares, represents the third iteration of her practice in working with color, light, practical manipulation, and curated objects, creating portals to unseen dimensions where the familiar pieces of everyday are pulled and cut apart. A progression can be seen with the titular "Y" of her three series. As it moves through the titles, the works seem to become subject to greater forces of volatility. Accelerating towards a final entropy. The glossy surfaced images act as frictionless planes where objects move with increasing speed through hyperbolic space and light.
Wu MeiChi's selection of objects gestures towards another aspect of vivid imagery, that of consumer goods and consumption. In the disarray of her works we see items and materials that stem from a culture of disposability. Colored wig, clear containers, and plastic trinkets are bent, twisted, and refracted in the YXX – The Flares series. These kitsch materials reveal an innate beauty and charm within the growing disorder.
Through Wu MeiChi's latest series, we can observe the artist's singular ability to meaningfully consider the malleability of images through an analysis of artifice and illusion, as well as collection and display.
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