Founder of 39+ Art Space Liu Ying Mei talks about Chinese contemporary artists, the Singapore art scene and NFTs

When one thinks of Chinese art, what typically come to mind are watercolour paintings of ancient history and culture, great landscape masterpieces and fine calligraphy. However, what Liu Ying Mei wants to put across in her current exhibition — now on till June 26 at 39+ Art Space — is that artists from China can be contemporary, innovative and edgy, too.

To showcase the diversity of artistic talent from her homeland, she curated a group show of five young critically-acclaimed artists, predominantly in their 30s, whose works span a wide array of themes and mediums. Fang Wei is known for his surreal depictions of the human condition, Lin Ke is known for his creative debasing of technological structures, Wang Yi is renowned for his large scale illusionary, post-minimalist paintings, Su Chang is recognised for his uncanny subversions of the mundane in sculptural forms, and Zhang Yunyao is known for his eccentric revivals of classical motifs.