Wei Libo was born in China in the 1990’s. He began his artistic studies in France in 2017 at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, then continued in 2020 the National School of Fine Arts in Paris from where he graduated in 2024. He is currently a resident of Villa Belleville.

After the massive urbanization resulting from the reform of the opening of China, Wei Libo undergoes constituent changes in his personal life with the loss of his house built by his grandfather architect and self-taught carpenter. The subsequent move forces his family to part with a large number of forefather-designed furniture. Wei Libo then embarks on a work of sculptures celebrating the memory of his origins. He is inspired first of all by the furniture of his childhood, the replicas he achieves according to the traditional know-how.

Subsequently, he allowed himself to slides by combining furniture of recovery with copies of traditional Chinese ceramics and fruit carved in a hyperrealistic way (frozen pear, tangerine, watermelon, melon) evoking the Flemish still lifes. These rapprochements between different techniques such as marqueted wood and ceramics and references as far away as cartoon and Chinese culture, allow him to play on the contradictions between modernity and tradition that contemporary Chinese society taught him.

Curator : Maëlle Dault