"For Shuo Hao, finding the proper place is at the heart of her practice. The Chinese artist, who is currently based in Paris, has long been interested in the ancient text and how it offers a system of understanding a world perpetually in flux. The cosmological book provides structure through the five elements-earth, water, air, fire, and metal-and also considers the relationships between humans and nature and the order of things, more broadly."
"Shuo Hao works with antique furniture, typically sourced from auctions and second-hand shops. Wood worn with age is her preferred material, and most objects she selects date between the 16th and 20th centuries. Like much of her practice, choosing these objects emerges more from intuition than a desire for an particular physical qualities. The artist then paints a panel or door, transforming both prized and forgotten pieces into surreal works."
Shuo Hao bases her practice on finding place and draws on the Yijing as a system for understanding a fluctuating world. The cosmology of five elements—earth, water, air, fire, and metal—provides structural relationships between humans and nature and an order of things. Hao sources antique wood furniture from auctions and second-hand shops, favoring pieces dated between the 16th and 20th centuries. Intuition guides object selection and arrangement more than formal criteria. She paints panels and doors on worn surfaces, transforming them into surreal, celestial-colored works populated by hybrid creatures that reference ancient myth. Framing the process as therapeutic and Jungian, she assembles parts that reflect aspects of her personality until each work feels whole.
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