Little Things 2004- 2007

It is through 'little things' that she marks out her world, a small world full of mysteries whose intimate nature excludes us.

The way in which Luo Mingjun creates these vases or bowls is perfectly in match with the underlying concepts. Due to the application of China ink on wet paper, the objects dissolve, the contours liquefy, the vase becomes empty, and the content is no longer contained, but blends into its environment, the paper support, and sometimes even floods it completely. There is no more space left for technical control: the reality of the vase diminishes as the reality of the work increases. Nothing remains of the object apart from its aura, its essence. Lao Tzu once said that: “Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends.” While Luo lets the vase go off as an object, she tries to recapture it as an idea, as a painted one for that matter. This process can be called conceptual painting, or philosophy through the picture.