Gallery EXIT presents Glary Wu’s solo exhibition ‘A Sentimental Journey’, featuring a new series of nine oil paintings, on show from 6 January to 3 February, 2024. Like a visual journal, the exhibited new works record recent events during the time when Wu, experiencing a state of loss, went travelling with her intimate friends. In an attempt to extend her memories and personal feelings through these paintings, the artist engages in a private self-dialogue and self-discovery, in the process gaining more self-knowledge and grounding, reflecting on what the act of painting means for her.
 
In Wu’s paintings, scenes and characters from daily life are presented on the canvas as individual scenes from a stage play. Revolving around trivial happenings and interactions between people, her paintings are rich in imagination and narrative quality, with special attention to the interactions between the various elements and characters on the pictorial surface and associations evoked from the scenes. Compared with her other works previously exhibited at Gallery EXIT, also rendered in the warm soft tones with the sentimental and ambiguous quality of memory, the new works manifest a distinct change in painting technique, where flowing lines and blurry brushstrokes become bolder, while in terms of tone and atmosphere, old photograph-like brownish yellows and greens pervade and define the whole series.

Opening: Saturday 2-5pm

Gallery address: 3/F, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen