Painterly tales

Peng Wei is known for her works attempting to bring the tradition of ink-and-water paintings into the narratives of modern life. She works with canvas, installations and digital media to showcase not only her refined brushwork but also her explorations to enrich the ink art tradition, by telling the stories and communicating the complex emotions of modern people. Her current exhibition, A Room With a Story, running at Nanchizi Art Museum through to July 5, takes viewers to the past while keeping them grounded in the present, blending dreams, memory and reality, examining concepts of truth and falsehood. Some of the works on show are suspended in midair. The layout of the exhibition hall resembles a corridor to present a mysterious atmosphere. The design is intended to recollect the murals in millennium-old caves of Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, as well as the Renaissance frescoes of Italy, in which she saw endless stories of the cycles of life and found inspiration for her work.

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