To The Wild: Ma Wenting Solo Exhibition

Ma Wenting will present her latest solo exhibition “To The Wild” at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space in August, the second solo exhibition in 2018 after her previous solo exhibition “The Book of Disquiet”. If “The Book of Disquiet” focuses more on the personal survival experience under today’s social reality, “To The Wild” comes from the artist's preference for barren land and for the representation of subconscious spiritual dimension included in her early works. The exhibition is made up of 15 paintings. Ma’s romantic and symbolic images are full of anxiety, hopelessness and loss of life. She separates and abstracts the real scene from the chaotic world, then intercepts and cuts off its connection with its original surroundings through painting, besieges, closes, isolates and controls. Finally she reorganizes and gives meaning to it, and weaves a beautiful and fragmented dystopian world for us.