One year after her debut UK show at Scream, the gallery welcomes Ye Hongxing for her second solo show.

Hot on the heels of her recent collaboration with luxury shoe designer, Christian Louboutin, Hongxing will return to exhibit her new body of work at Scream, one of London’s most innovative gallery spaces.

Hongxing’s standout exhibition will showcase more eyecatching artworks in the definitive Scream vein of championing bold attention-grabbing talent. Since her debut show at the gallery, Hongxing’s project with Louboutin has paved the way for her work to be understood in a new fashion context. Her fantastical collage installations exhibited at the shoe practitioner’s emporium join the coalition of luxury brands like Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Prada, combining fashion and art through cross cultural exchanges.

In line with the Scream manifesto of showing art’s potential to be provocative and pop, Hongxing’s new artworks are jewel-strewn images comprised of stickers, diamante, glass beads and stones.

Vivid scenes are made from layers of tiny colourful embellishments. From a distance, the works appear as hyper real compositions of nature, complete with animals and creatures in a colourful wonderland. On closer inspection, the large scenes are assembled from thousands of stickers. Massproduced materials collected from retail and haberdashery outfits depict clashing images of nature, buddhas, skulls, shoes and helicopters.

In the Scream tradition of showing artists’ work that draws on popular culture, Hongxing’s wild clash of east versus west motifs reveals a visual reading of a modern China. Caught in the frenzy the country’s economic and technological progress, her pieces aim to lend a narrative on the dizzying impact on its people, highlighting the fusion of modern technology and secularism with the more traditional and spiritual aspects of Chinese culture.

Born in Guangxi in 1972, Ye Hongxing’s work was selected by the curator of the Asian Art Museum in California and the Director of Art Cologne as one of China’s top 20 young emerging artists in Chinese Art Prize 2006. Her work is widely collected by high profile figures in China and she is gaining more international attention than ever after showcasing last year at Art Asia during Art Basel Miami Beach with Art Lexïng as well as her first solo exhibition ‘Modern Utopia’ in London at Scream Gallery last September.

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