Chelsea College of Arts presents from 7 to 13 September 2018 the works of Ziyin Guan, Jijie Zheng, Karen Tronel Hector Wai-Chan Kit, Mariana Peltonen, Xuelin Zhang, James Sirell, Wang Jiayu, Xueyu Liu, Daniel Ancel, Nell Lyhne and their acolytes. Their works question as much the consumer society as the pictorial process or the practice of more academic genres such as animal representation.
The references to the pictorial aesthetics that gave birth to our modernity are clearly legible, be they surrealist painters, post-war New York abstract art movements or later pop art.
Corey White, a sculptor and recent recipient of The Ingram Collection's "Young Purchase Talent Prize", talks about his artistic motives. He is an observer of modern consumer behavior by looking at the traditional celebrations that punctuate our religious calendar: what do Christmas, Easter, Halloween mean? He questions our memories evoking the anxiety and hysteria that seem to reign during the symbolic holidays of our calendar. His sociological conception is expressed through sculptural works elaborated with resin: "I apply materials that have a limited control time and then challenge them by pushing them even further, in my polyurethane foam that I use as well as some inflatable products, the material becomes uncontrollable, it is for me an interesting process of creation