Sun Wenjia
家居廊 DECORATION
Sun Wenjia is on the first floor of the studio. After graduating from the Oil Painting Department, he pursued postgraduate studies in lacquer art and later became a contemporary artist using lacquer as his creative medium. Sun Wenjia uses his works to present a more
contemporary aspect of this traditional craft. His creations integrate multiple reflections on time, nature, life and death, the universe, and human biology. Hanging at the centre of the back wall, 'Wu Yan M02' is a piece completed during a drift along the Minjiang River, flowing downstream from Taitian Village, Junkou Town, Jianning County, Sanming, Fujian, eventually reaching the Mawei estuary in Fuzhou. The drift lasted a total of 45 days, covering 577 kilometres. The work attempts to explore the relationship between Fuzhou, the Minjiang River, and lacquer.
This is the second floor of the studio, with lacquer artworks hanging on the walls. For Sun Wenjia, lacquer is an ancient yet contemporary material. He hopes to use lacquer as a medium to capture the shape of the present time through his work. It is not time itself, but an external form of time in the visual arts, allowing him to throw himself into the future stretch of the river of time and look back at the present.