SHU Rui

Shu Rui was born in Suzhou, China, and now lives and works in Limoges and Paris after graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Limoges.

Her painting style is more or less influenced by the global environment, particularly by different media viewing habits. It often exhibits an unstable characteristic: neither a fixed creative subject nor a defined research object, with even backgrounds occasionally omitted.

She depicts things through a fragmented and decentralized approach to realism. Her work combines both autobiographical and documentary dimensions. She primarily focuses on portraying—in the sense of “narrating”—the objects she owns: her clothes, bags, iron, books, mobile phone, food, and packaging of products she has consumed. She renders them with a kind of reverence, copying images from packaging as if reproducing the work of a great master.