He Sen

For more than a decade he has created provocative and large-scale works that portray youth struggling in China’s fast-changing modern society. These blurred photorealistic images - women smoking in their homes, young people in seductive underwear and poses - explore how China’s youths were seduced by the growing influences of westernisation and globalisation, as well as the artist’s pessimistic outlook on this generation. More recently He Sen has turned to reinventing classical Chinese landscape paintings, replacing his figures with symbols as bamboo and pine.