We’re excited for our 3rd particaption at BIG Art Amsterdam. This year we are bringing a new installation by Ma Hui. We will present Endless Lines, a waterfall of etching on rice paper consisting of more than 50m of work.
Join us at the fair
28.09.2023, 16:00 - 19:00 (VIP Preview, invitation only)
29.09.2023, 11:00 - 18:00
30.09.2023, 11:00 - 18:00
01.10.2023, 11:00 - 18:00
BIG ART will take place in the entrance (main) building of the former Bijlmerbajes on the ground-, 1st and 2nd floor. More than 100 artworks will be exhibited.
About the Work
‘The tree wants to rest. But the wind never stops’. This theme reflects my feelings about life as an unstoppable movement of time. Day to day life goes by without much space to reflect. The days pass by, while the wind covers our thoughts, our idle intentions, under layers of dust and sand, eternally, unbearably.
Is it the human condition, our fate, to commence this nameless journey and not to know its destiny? Just to go on, aimlessly moving forward for movement’s sake, dancing to life’s tune, an unspeakable rhythm, seemingly endless motion?
From the moment of birth to our inescapable demise we may attempt to halt the flow of time, but we are bound to fail. Human development through the ages, if anything, tells us that man learns little from past mistakes, from fellow-humans, from past lives.
We tend to forget that the wind continues to blow. Meanwhile we dismiss the passing of time as if we may live forever, without even beginning to fathom its uncertain meaning. Never enough.
Endless Lines is my personal celebration of time and motion. It tries to convey emotions that are finding their way on this long winding road, feelings of loneliness, of sadness but also of joy. We must continue, with little to protect ourselves in a constant battle to deliver us from evil winds.
BIO
Ma Hui is a Chinese Born Artist, living in Amsterdam and is famous for her knowledge of and expression in using ink on paper. As a first generation immigrant Ma Hui feels a strong bond with her motherland. Inspired by her childhood memories and personal attachment to her hometown, she expresses her emotion through the stroke of ink.
Ma hui explains: “I enable forms to coexist, creating a dialogue between different dimensions and different structures in silent movement.”
Ma Hui was born in Chengde, Hebei Province in 1958, to the family of a high-ranking party official. Her extensive range of artworks embodies her two very different cultural identities in a number of ways. Her feelings about shuimo, Chinese ink and water on paper, stem from her days of early childhood on the banks of the Yellow River in Ningxia.