‘对象 a 2025007’— 大粒
This series differs from previous expressions of emotion or intuition; it leans more toward exploring inner or latent states—neither simply direct nor indirect—using painting as a way to explore the language of painting. What makes it interesting is that I tend to use a single image to convey something akin to a chapter in literature, and no matter what information the viewer reads into it, it still remains within the preset scope.
Dali lives and works in Shenzhen. She received her MA degree from the University of the Arts London in 2015.
Dali’s practice centers on an investigation into the gap and suture between visual imagery, perceptual illusion, and lived experience. Originating in an early engagement with abstraction, her work has evolved through distinct yet interrelated series marked by acts of extraction, fragmentation, retrospection, and reconstruction. These bodies of work operate within a recursive logic, mutually reflecting and reactivating one another. At the core of her practice lies a sustained tension between the inner psyche and the external world, enacted through processes of confrontation, deconstruction, and reconfiguration. For Dali, a condition of ‘Continuous Becoming’ constitutes the most viable resolution within her current artistic inquiry. She understands painting as an open-ended, reflective process of questioning and integration, capable of generating layered and multidimensional meaning. It is akin to the physicist’s attempt to capture the presence of an electron—a fundamental entity whose existence is inferred, measured, and theorized, yet never directly perceived by the naked eye. Thus, painting may not ultimately be concerned with what is depicted, but rather with how one navigates the delicate interplay between the visible and the invisible, presence and absence, imagination and lack. It is within this subtle negotiation that painting approaches a boundary where language and vision seem never to have fully arrived.
