Overview
Born 1983 in Shanghai, China. Lives and works in Shanghai.
Cui Jie creates paintings that, by incorporating diverse real and fantasy layers, explore the heterogeneous perspectives in various fields and geopolitical contexts. She meticulously deals with each sculptural and architectural layer, and represents the process through which the modern world has undergone enormous and monumental changes. Delicate and calm, gentle and emotionally charged, Cui’s landscape and interior paintings present comparative studies of cities and urban environments. For the artist, the cities she depicts are closely associated with her personal history: one can identify in the subject matter Bauhaus architectural principles, ideologies of Chinese propaganda art, Soviet communist aesthetics, or the Japanese Metabolism architectural movement, among others. In rendering specific cities, architectures, structures and landscapes, Cui explores the embedded histories of perspectives, and shrewdly proposes the political meanings of distance, angles and time.
