Maoyu Mao(b. 1998) now lives and works in Hangzhou. She received her bachelor's degree in experimental art from China Academy of Art (2020) and her master's degree in fine art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2023).Maoyu’s work based on a...
Read MoreMaoyu Mao(b. 1998) now lives and works in Hangzhou. She received her bachelor's degree in experimental art from China Academy of Art (2020) and her master's degree in fine art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2023).
Maoyu’s work based on a personal awareness and experience of the present state of living things, exploring the broader sense of 'how one becomes what it is'. By using installation, text and performance as tools for reconfiguring and revaluing the relationship between exuberant emotional experience and the material world, accessing a cosmic dance from a micro-system. On the quiet side of things, above the boundaries of the living, forming an adventurous word, a healthy breeze, an unknown letter or a mysterious symbol.
Recently Maoyu is focusing on the fragile relationship between art and daily life. Home furniture, clothes, food all become the sites of investigation in a constant effort to better understand the social construction of human nature and needs, aiming to discover a way of life that transcends social norms - simultaneously conforms to the smallest range of individuality as well as the largest range of natural laws.
