Bypassing the conventional perception of value imposed by the modern world, Mu’s often abstract artworks are the result of a process of reflection that associates today’s existence.
Xue Mu (b. 1979 Nanjing, CN) is a Visual Artist based in Amsterdam NL and Nanjing CN. She is an alumni at de Rijksakademie Voor Beeldende Kunsten (2011-2012), Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2009) and Dutch Art Institute (2006). Between 2013 and 2015 her projects were presented in art institutions at de Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, de Appel Arts Centre, He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen and AMNUA Nanjing. Mu has been commissioned several times for public art projects in the Netherlands from 2009 to 2012.
Bypassing the conventional perception of value imposed by the modern world, Mu’s often abstract artworks are the result of a process of reflection that associates today’s existence. Through an almost synesthetic approach, Mu visualises the paradoxical co-existences between insignificance and value, to dispute the physical understanding of reality and its moral conventions. While facing the intensified ideological confusion and identity struggle at present time of globalisation, critical social events inspire Mu as a catalyst rather than a subject – they accelerate the revelation of the intertwined relationships between the stories surface (the image) and its concealed cause (the dynamical truth). Through art making she wants to revive a mind space exploring the, in fact, non-hierarchic and ever circulating being of things as a complex unity.