Tianai Hu
About
Tianai Hu, from China (b.1997), currently lives and works in London. She graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 2019 and from the Royal College of Art in 2022.
Tianai Hu likes to mix soft, slippery and sloppy materials with hard, transparent and shiny ones, creating contradictions and finding balance, obsessing over unstable materials that are constantly changing in time and space, using them to constantly portray emotions.
GROUP SHOWS
2021.03.23 Underline Art Space -《 * 》Asterisk - Beijing
2021.04.10 Yell Space - There was a pond of antic, Of silence and of peace Amid the froth a leap rang of its spark, Of water and of life - Shanghai
2022.02.16 SET Woolwich - We Won’t Stop Showing - London
2022.03.04 Standpoint Gallery - PRICK, STITCH, VENT & POUND ALLIANCE Lapped Seams and Silver Linings - London
2022.04.19 Open Ealing - Circle In Circle - London
Statement
In my works, there is always family, emotion and fantasy, and the self-contradiction and rebellion that life has brought to me. I'm fascinated by overly decorative and absurd but quiet images, I like to use a variety of materials to create eccentric paintings and sculptures and in this way put my emotions on strongly.
After Family Dinner
Look at this family dinner
They toast for each other
They talk the minutiae of family members
Look the intertwined arms
Look the flickering mouths
Like a slithering snake hissing and spitting
It stares at me it stares at me
I hang my head
Peeking at the forgotten oranges on the table
Medium: Oil painting, fabric
Size: flexible
Me, Living Alone
Medium: oil painting
Size: 50.8cm x 40.6cm/50.8cm x 101.6cm/91.4cm x 60.9cm/76.2cm x 76.2cm