Amid handmade paper and layers of tempera, Bao Pei’s work seems to hold a paradox: capturing the infinite within finite surfaces. Her new exhibition in Beijing brings together pieces created over the past decade, where color, marks, and erasures overlap in an unceasing process of stratification. Each image unfolds like a dense, vital garden, born of accumulation and mutation. At the recurring core is the grid: ink lattices cut by diagonals that break the rigidity of the structure, generating errors and deviations that open new visual possibilities. It is precisely in error, the artist suggests, that life takes root - just as in DNA mutations. Her canvases, then, do not reproduce static order but reveal continuous dynamism, a dialogue between modernism and difference. Here, materials and techniques multiply: oil, ink, tempera, even light itself. Drips, scratches, and pressures transform the surface into a living organism. The result is a painting that not only evokes the cultural and philosophical fabric of the past but also blossoms as an unexpected flowering - an image of life in its inexhaustible energy.
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