Xingyi Qu
Portfolio
EVERLASTING
DREAMLAND
“Everlasting Dreamland” is a project I worked at during 2022 and 2023. The works, including
paintings and sculptures, were shown as an installation on Goldsmiths MFA degree show
2023.
It's an attempt of dream-creating, a narration of wired dreams. It all started with a desire to
“escape from reality”. Returning to my childhood room, lying on a pink bed with fluffy toys,
and then enter the dream world on the other side. There, familiar materials like fabrics and
wool form a colorful landscape: vines, wreaths, auroras, and collage surfaces spreading out
from the walls and floors.
This is the kind of thing I always see in my dreams: objects from reality randomly assembled
with fragments of memory in an elusive logic. Everything feels soft and vague, yet continuous
and progressive. I try to record dreams and study them, but in the end, I choose to see them
as phenomenon of consciousness that cannot and do not need to be rationally analyzed. The
only things I can understand are the uncertainty of dream memories, together with the sense
of both familiarity and confusion about the things in the dream after waking up. That is also
the emotion I want to convey through this work.
Is there a moment when you want to escape from reality? , 2022
Multi materials
Details: Is there a moment when you want to escape from reality? , 2022
Multi materials
An altered display of Is there a moment when you want to escape from reality?
(2022). The indside part was taken out and shown with the work Aurora (2023).
Aurora, 2023
Fabric, wire
Wreath, 2023
Wire, yarn, pom poms
40cm*45cm
Harmony, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
30cm*30cm
Vine, 2023
Yarn, wire
Variable dimensions
In the corner! , 2023
Yarn, wire
Variable dimensions
Spreading…I, 2023
Fabric, yarn, wire
150cm*255cm
Spreading…II, 2023
Fabric, yarn
111cm*229.6cm
Rest stop #3, 2023
Inflatable chair, fabric, yarn
Details: Rest stop #3, 2023
Inflatable chair, fabric, yarn
Installation: Everlasting Dreamland
Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show 2023, Goldsmiths,
University of London, London
Installation: Everlasting Dreamland，2023
Paintings
Selected paintings produced during 2018 and 2021, when I was studying in China Academy of
Art. I was especially interested in landscape painting where I could explore the possibilities of
colours, lines, shapes and textures more freely.
My paintings are dispassionate: I see and record the scenes in front of me, designing them
into regular shapes and distributing them in order throughout the painting. Lines are used to
connect these shapes, and in certain areas I highlight them by making special picture textures
with paint or other materials. Figures sometimes appear in the picture, but they are always
reduced to vague shapes that become part of a unified painting language. I like vivid colours.
I will always carefully plan their positions in the picture and their relationship to each other.
Cityscapes with a variety of colours, or sunrise and sunset scenes with rich light conditions are
my favourite painting subjects.
shop window, 2019
Oil on canvas
100cm*80cm
Sunrise, 2019
OIl on canvas
30cm*30cm*4
Outside the window, 2018
Oil on canvas
40cm*50cm
By the sea, 2021
Oil on canvas
210cm*140cm
Details: By the sea, 2021
Oil on canvas
210cm*140cm
