The Changing Times, Lu Shouhui's ink works

Lu Shouhui, born in 1990 in Dingxi, Gansu Province, is a contemporary ink and wash artist, and is now a professional painter. He was shortlisted for the New Star Art Award in 2018 and the John Moore Painting Award in 2020.

Works in the "Who" series.

The red and blue woven bag deep in my memory was once the "hard pass" of an era, almost every family would have it, it provided a lot of convenience for the workers walking in the field, now, every time I think of the bag stuffed with daily necessities, that is the parting and hope, leaving home with the unknown and hope, coming home with love and warmth, it has been loaded with the With the change of the times, it gradually withdrew from the stage of history, and nowadays, its occasional appearance is only the retro psychology of people pursuing the so-called fashion, but it has lost its original and most simple function. In this series of works, the faces of the characters are filled with red and blue textures, and only the outline of the portraits is retained to express the changes and uncertainties of the times, and that people are just flowers blossoming and tides coming and going in the great tide of the times, and everything becomes blurred and distorted with the passage of time.