Fu Yao: Encounter

Horses stepping on the moon or hidden in the night, carrying knights interspersed in black and white colours, they are the protagonists of each other colliding in a scene of mystical symbolism[ Script-3, Yao Fu, 2022]. They can be a counterpoint to a real person in a historical event or a wandering soul in a dystopian play. The space created by artist Fu Yao is not only the single-line dimension between inside and outside the frame. She leaves behind gaps with dark currents, and the audience seems to be able to slide through her constructed repertoire from any angle of the gaps.

Peter Brook[ Peter Brook (1925-2022), born in London, England, was a renowned theatre and film director, and a major international theatre director of the twentieth century] has mentioned in his book The Empty Space that "the fact that one person walks through the space while others watch is enough to constitute a scene of theatre". The key to drama does not depend on the storyline, but on the occurrence of the event.Through magical and absurd images, Fu Yao allows events intertwined with characters and stories from different cultures and backgrounds to take place on the canvas. Because she knows that the only way to get into the show is to make it happen.

By presenting 30 works, Fu Yao's new solo exhibition invites audiences to Encounter in a non-vertical way through the artist's creative vein and spiritual world. In the Scenario series, Fu Yao uses geometric stage-like images to dissolve the viewer's preconceived notions of classic stories, and breaks through the structure of the public's understanding through the technique of re-narrative. The ambiguous and detached approach of the re-narrative weakens the didactic meaning of the traditional fables, making them more vivid and free, while adding a sense of destiny to the work, which is as fluid and uncontrollable as fate.