How contemporary artist Fanglin Luo channels Aphrodite and Nvwa (Nüwa) to question feminine identity and cultural power
“hrough the lens we see a dancer in front of a fence. There is a wind-tussled sheet hanging behind her. The sound of crashing waves intensifies as the dancer starts to rise from a crouch and into a series of movements, sometimes balletic, sometimes frantic. On the sheet a circle of flowers moves with quick balletic movements. Part performance, part statement, there is something here that is struggling to be understood. Is this itself the message?
Multidisciplinary artist Fanglin Luo’s work takes viewers on a broad journey through ritual femininity and exploratory performance art. These are universal themes that she interprets through performance works that restage powerful cultural archetypes as a form of resistance against patriarchal tropes. But history has deep roots and not all of them bear sweet fruit. The question viewers face is whether her myth (re)making marks true growth.”
