朱丽晴 Liane Chu，青年新晋艺术家，中央美术学实验艺术与科技艺术学院硕士学位在读，研究方向为总体艺术与跨界研究，以架上绘画、装置及雕塑等多元材料做为艺术语言，作品曾在伦敦、纽约、芬兰等世界各地参展。
希望通过作品在疗愈自我的同时，可以疗愈更多热爱生活的人们。虽然艺术家通过身体的释放来创作，但却不见过分抽象的笔触，其让人更看到一种介乎冷静与爆发间的把握。在颜色方面，艺术家通过各种“不合逻辑”的颜色搭配，对陈词滥调的“正常”事物进行反思，也回应了现代主义绘画中从后印象主义到超现实主义的种种思考。作品让人们反思那条分隔正常与不正常的界限的谬误，因为可能恰恰是“不正常”的存在让艺术的生成成为可能——那种独特的不规则律动让画作呈现出灿烂且个体化的生命特征。
另外，漫画般的画风则使得我们回忆童年时不轻易为事物划界线的态度，并重新着眼于“健康的生命”而非“正常的存在”。
Liane Chu(b.1997) is currently studying at the Central Academy of Fine Art master in Experimental Art and Technology. Chu’s Normal and Abnormal series offers an evocative space for discourse and rumination. Her virtuosity is epitomised by her meticulous use of colours and textures as she enlivens the silent giants in her multidimensional compositions.
Chu calls our attention to the omnipresence of media in the twenty-first century- the technicoloured pixels flooded into our lives when the world became accessible from a rectangle piece of liquid-crystal display. Through hurried taps, swipes and scrolls, we feed on the amalgamation of hues, letters and vibrations that inadvertently alter our chemistry.
When we indulge in the mass media, we believe we are autonomous agents. To Chu, humans are akin to trees. We become what we consume - with nutrients, we flourish and blossom; With poison, we wilt and rot. In this series, the soil in which the perennial subjects feed on entwines them with tints of obscure colours. Chu paints eccentric portraits for our metaphorical counterparts in ethereal backdrops for the audience to embrace a moment of stillness amidst the dynamic modern society (metropolis). We are reminded that we are a vibrant palimpsest of our empirical contiguity, in which individuality is manifested and celebrated.
The surrealist landscapes created by Chu doubled as her biopic of her personal experience with Tourette’s syndrome. Her artworks are a means of cathartic release as each twitching stroke confronts the societal demarcation between ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’. By letting her body perceives the world freely, she embodies her belief of simultaneous self-healing and self-release. With each roaring slash lacerating the comforting gradients, Chu depicts her struggles and desire to navigate the ‘normal’ world whilst she cultivates a sense of hope and tranquillity in the chaos that is life.