Artist’s Statement

Han Lin

 

My recent works integrate the ideas of the human condition in the modern, urban and post-digital world, as well as psychological and sociological stress, into the genre of abstract art. Currently, I’m working on a series painting of “Urban Depression”.

 

Initially, the idea was derived from the increasing rates of mental dissociation, committed suicide and even social retaliation in the urban areas. Pressures from every aspect of human life have unquestionably been the arch-criminal. Accordingly, the number of suicidal events has been proliferating and devours precious human life, whereas people still object to taking latent risks as something under the edge of depression.

 

Operating between such acts of the build like a sculpture, I hunt for a sense of oppression from urban life, which this feeling of pressure could reach through cutting and accumulation. Based on my exploration, using scrapped cardboard and wood can also produce works with strong architectonic. At the same time, the collections of boards on the portraits yield the depressed patients’ unwillingness to embrace reality and the social pressure on human beings.

 

Fortunately, my diverse life experience of myself endow the intention to arouse people’s attention for taking notice of the potential damage from mental health, and the expression of decreasing the depression from urban life should have emerged through the art inspiration.

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