'The Seductress' by Rainy Tong

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By Signature Art Prize 2025
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

210 × 204 × 2 cm

Materials:

Oil on canvas, Poem, Mounted on wood stick

Primary Medium:

Painting

Extra Large
2025
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"CATEGORY: Red, Yellow, Green, Violet, Pink, SepiaABOUT THE PIECE:The inspiration for Alienation comes from traditional Chinese ink painting and Edvard Munch's artwork. The piece consists of four female figures and an abstract contemporary love poem I wrote two years ago, expressing emotions of alienation, rapture, and rupture. Alienation was completed in my studio at the Royal College of Art in 2025. I painted it in oil on a 200x200cm canvas and adopts the scroll mounting method of traditional Chinese landscape painting, with the canvas mounted on wooden strips. The bold strokes and bright colors show the unseen desire and alienation which fluid between the four female figures.ABOUT THE ARTIST:Rainy Tong graduated from Royal College of Art | London Painting in 45884.Qiuxiang Liu (Rainy Tong) is a painter (b. China 1986) based in London. She is the founder of DaTong Art Lab in Shenzhen, China, and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic practice explores the female body across painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and poetry. Rainy see the body itself as adventure, mystery, and landscape. She portray the bodies in a dangerous, erotic, playful, and violent ways, exploring the materiality of the body, love and desire; constructing cross-cultural narratives of gender, identity fluidity while examining its dialogue between Eastern and Western cultures. Since moving abroad, Rainy has felt a deeper connection to China, which led her to reflect on the relationship between her own body and homeland culture. particularly traditional Chinese painting, which she considers an essential part of her identity. To this end, Rainy try to carry out a dialogue between the Eastern traditional art and the Western contemporary art in her visual language, presenting a flesh-and-blood ‘landscape’ formed by intertwined and overlapping bodies. The bodies entangled with ambitious lines, wild drips, faceless, amorphous shapes, and boneless, established gender-fluid, fleshed, adventured body landscapes. Rainy was born and grew up in a typical Chinese family deep- rooted in a male-dominated patriarchal society. For thousands of years, women in China have been repressed, objectified, and required to be invisible. To break the gender constraints imposed on women by societal norms, as a modern Chinese woman, Rainy challenge herself to boldly showcase the unseen desire in the female body through painting. The nude and sexual female bodies entangled in her works make the invisible visible."

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