Weihui Lu is not a brand
Circling Issue #8, featuring Weihui Lu
Weihui Lu is an artist interested in our relationship to time, land, and loss. Using the framework of traditional Chinese landscape painting in a contemporary context, her work explores translucency and ancestral memory, image reproduction and degradation, and the land itself as something alive and prescient, capable of grief as much as we are capable of empathy. Moving between painting, printmaking, and installation, they seek to create experiences rooted in body and space are drawn to slow, craft-based processes, both as a mode of restoration and healing, and an alternative to the digital speed of modern-day image production and consumption.
Weihui and I first met in a course about art writing, and reconnected to discuss their touchstone objects that create a home in which art can survive. For Weihui, collapsing the distinction between home and studio space has been a step toward making life as a working artist more achievable. We discussed living where you work, and how this can rel…