By Minqi Xu MFA Fine Art - Wimbledon College of Arts for Walls in Online Places Vol.2
This series of watercolour paintings explores self-awareness and gaze.
The gaze could be from myself and it also could be from the audience.
In these paintings, I witnessed another me from a parallel world in the dream. There is a hypothesis about the connection of dream and parallel worlds. The door will open during the dream, so what we see in the dream maybe is our life in another world. I faced my hidden desires and desperation in my dream, and I tried to save myself from it.
The gaze in paintings add the feeling of uncanny and strange.
Gaze series
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'Gaze' by Minqi Xu, MFA Fine Art - Wimbledon College of Arts
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'Gaze' by Minqi Xu, MFA Fine Art - Wimbledon College of Arts
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'Gaze' by Minqi Xu, MFA Fine Art - Wimbledon College of Arts
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'Gaze' by Minqi Xu, MFA Fine Art - Wimbledon College of Arts
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