Angoisse La Redousse, 2021

In the series of “Angoisse La Redousse”, Cheng portrays the daydream of Taoist Arcadia, to live with liberation of spirit, a state of wandering in absolute freedom in a village of an idealized past, untouched by passage of time and political turmoil. In the paintings, mountains are in between planes and screens where the entrance and exits are not clearly directed. It aims to mirror the topography of our interior being in relation to the architectural imagination, daydream in relation to a house and universe; the spiral desire of coming in and going out of a maze; and our fascination and fear towards ruins. The neon color which escapes from the industrial world of concrete suggests an illusion of daydreams and protection from the reality. White frames activate the process of construction and deconstruction of the image and disturb the relationship of subject and object. Here, she embraces abstraction with the improvisation of Chinese landscape painting.