Chujun Hu - Contemporary Art Practitioner
Chujun’s practice navigates the liminal space between collective cultural memory and intimate psychological excavation. Through semi-autobiographical painting and interdisciplinary installation, she interrogate the dialectics of corporeality and desire, employing a hybrid aesthetic that merges classical figuration with expressionist distortion.
Drawing upon feminist frameworks and the chromatic intensity of Marlene Dumas, her canvases render female forms as palimpsests of cultural anxiety, where watercolor veils and acrylic gestures coalesce into hieroglyphs of suppressed affect. This ontological tension extends into fetish studies, where symbolic ecosystems of flora, fauna, and disposable ephemera are reconfigured through surrealist syntax. By parasitizing mundane objects with new mythologies, the work stages a Brechtian confrontation between private obsession and public spectacle.
Her methodology embraces palimpsestic layering—digital airbrush dissolving into oil impasto, baroque compositions fractured by graphic design principles. This material heteroglossia seeks not resolution, but rather to sustain the productive unease of contemporary existence, transforming canvas and space into psychosexual archives where viewers become co-conspirators in decoding desire’s hierophanies.