ABÎME DE L’EAU

In 2024, Su Mei-Yu developed several series using a “day/night effect” that she obtained using paints that react to black light.

The Abyss of Water is also inspired by Chinese philosophy, emphasizing the relationship between man, nature and life, the harmony between heaven, earth and society. This connection to nature is reflected in an instinctive painting, made with simple leaves or objects diverted from their initial use.

As the author Agnès Fabre points out: ""[SU Mei-Yu] (She refuses the brush and prefers to apply her colored paste with tools that she invents. Her main concern being to leave a trace, to transpose a visual and tactile sensation onto the canvas, she seeks the third party who, in her hands, operates this unspeakable transfer, this passage from the real to the symbolic, the metamorphosis of banality into sensitive testimony. She picks all sorts of leaves - philodendron, rhubarb, palm, as well as the paliurus hemsleyanus - collects unusual objects or scraps found on the ground or in a DIY store by Kim, her husband and painting partner.

These “objects”, most of the time intended for other uses, offer SU Mei-Yu the possibility of transgressing their initial form of which she retains only the most minimal trace. They are intercessors between the artist and the painting which occupies first place. The tool lends itself to SU Mei-Yu's gestures, but it is the painting, in the end, that will have the last word."