
Yirui Jia
Rhapsody , 2022
acrylic, gesso and glitter on canvas
220 x 340 cm
86 5/8 x 133 7/8 in
86 5/8 x 133 7/8 in
For the first time Yirui Jia has restructured the physical landscape of the canvas, joining two different sized canvases together, to complete the largest work of her career to date....
For the first time Yirui Jia has restructured the physical landscape of the canvas, joining two different sized canvases together, to complete the largest work of her career to date. A conductor of works, both emphatically chaotic and ordered, Yirui Jia propels the female figure into a disoriented momentum through the irregular shapes of the frame. Two abashed protagonists drift on a life raft through a sea of red roses, or agglomerate cherries, carrying a cigarette and two quail-egg-pattern-like objects. The image as a whole contains an inherent Bohemian aura: pastoral, romantic and free. The parallel columns of blue paint could be barreling waves, or a swimming pool, divided by a string of dotted pearls, on the verge of submerging the protagonist all together, swallowing her up whole.