Xuanbo Cao
Xuanbo Cao is an art worker based in London, her inspirations are all from nature, plants and daily life, from where collect colours, shapes and compositions. She is trying to find the balance between representation and abstract art, combine different materials to make works more creative. Vivid colours and lively shapes are her unique style in her works.
People always feel sorry for the marine life caught in the aquarium. The square glass tank is like a cage to imprison them, but the ocean is just an irregularly shaped cage. Apart from oceans, plains, mountains, and deserts are all cages, and the earth is a huge cage composed of these cages. In this cage, oxygen, sunlight, rain, clouds, breeze, heavy snow, plants, animals, and tiny bacteria, seem to be carefully designed and arranged on the surface of the earth. Outside the earth, there is a silent universe - all sounds on the earth are separated by clouds, and joy, anger, wailing, and sadness only happen in the cage, just like human beings cannot hear the voices of sea creatures inside the glass.
The inspiration comes from the plants’ cells experiments done by a witch in her laboratory. She recombines different cells to form new life forms, and choose one of them which is suitable for herself and make it accessories to carry with her. I am this witch, and I made these living beings and kept them in transparent containers. 'Witches represent women who transcend domination and restriction.' With the advent of equal rights awareness, women slowly grow freely outward from the frame of being stared at and restricted, showing their positive and splendid vitality in various forms. Cells like those shown in the work break through the glass slide being observed and form free-form shapes. The definition of a witch could be changed, and the culture of witches could continue and grow freely.
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