Jiaqi Wu, Desired Night View, Soft pastel, 2019, 18x24inch

My works often explore the joy of life. In art history or contemporary “mainstream” of the art world, the topics are sometimes critical. During the covid-19 pandemic, many people suffered and hardly lived. When the outside world is full of sadness: violence, inequality, subjugation, and virus, people need to remind themselves that the world still has joy and beauty. We need the cure. I would like to introduce a point of view that is playful and beautiful and has elements of blur, imaginary, but also reminiscent. When it looks familiar, it could bring up memory. To look at this image, it may be helpful for the viewers to imagine the world/future otherwise and forget about the sadness in the world for a moment.