DSL Magazine: Issue 13

40 Shang Yixin's painting 97% holds a hypnotic, even kinetic perspective, evoking the sense of vertigo. Vertigo is this possible free fall that, in extremis, blends into ourselves. Caught up in an uncontrollable feeling of emptiness, the plunge is a violent temptation that beckons. Here the earthly colors contrast with the superimposed lines, arranged as if they are suspended and inviting themselves in their midst.