Xu was born in Shenzhen in 1990 and was recently a masters student in oil painting at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute in Chongqing, which positions him within the latest generation of Chinese contemporary artists.
Read MoreIn Look Again, his first solo exhibition, his work positions his practice in the context of the ubiquitous landscape of digital imagery but reliant on painterly craft. To achieve this Xu takes everyday objects, signs and patterns and technically manipulates and distorts the images through painting. Xu says his deconstructed paintings reflect that we have "the ability to obtain all kinds of information... As a result, considerable change has occurred in the way we form memories… Fragmented recollections and kaleidoscopic online 'browsing' experiences inform our external, ontological presence and internal self-knowledge."
