Xie Lei
Premonition X, 2025
2025
H 48 x W 32 x D 3 cm (framed)
Oil on paper
Xie Lei chooses painting through personal conviction, as it opens up a pathway towards a language capable of expressing his sensory universe and a field of experimentation that allows him to delve into the specificity of this medium in the contemporary world. His work dwells on the complexity of events and situations, and above all, their ambiguity and the tensions they foster. Premonition X features a head with an open mouth and closed eyes. The vertical brushstrokes make it seems as if it is falling yet simultaneously floating, which is heightened further by the intense blue tones.
About Xie Lei
Xie Lei was born in Huainan, Anhui province of China, in 1983 and has lived and worked in Paris since 2006. After graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, he attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he completed a practice-based PhD in visual arts in 2016. He is the winner of the 2025 Prix Marcel Duchamp, and has exhibited worldwide at Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, The Warehouse, Dallas; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Radius, Delft; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; CAPC, Bordeaux; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille; X Museum, Beijing; Fondation Ricard, Paris.