Mu Xue’s (b.1979) work reveals the intricate relationships between surface narratives (the images) and their hidden causes (dynamic truths) where critical events act as catalysts in her work. Inspired by contemporary studies in humanity and social sciences, Mu explores themes of individuation, the collective unconscious, and the in-between tension; visualizing a mental landscape that reflects the non-hierarchical, ever-circulating dynamical of being.




Each drawing unfolds the dynamic relationships of complex subjects/events that interested the artist highly and at different periods, resulting in a map-making of the unspoken complexity of the artist’s internal evolution - an exploration of her relations to the foreign world in her surroundings as a diasporic individual - during the inexhaustible exchange while continuously evolving with the internal and external conflicts and harmony.

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