The Deluges

A quarter of the global population is at risk of flooding, I did not aware that until the news came up to me that a 1000-year-flood attacked Henan province in China, in the subway line 5 which has taken over 14 lives, I saw a living hell. As a practitioner of art in Chinese, I want to whoop: Climate crisis is not only an item in reports, it is happening! As an artist who grew up near the Yangzi River, I am sensitive to floods. During my study at Guangzhou Art Academy, I created many artworks to tell the relationship between humans and nature. This time, I created 'The Deluges' as a pastiche of the renowned mural ‘The Deluge’ which was painted on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. To express the authenticity of the authentic disasters, I cut 66 figures out from 23 photographs taken from real floods all over the world to take the place of all the figures in the original painting and created a digital surrealist collage. The original painting depicted an apocalypse from God, however, the 23 deluges behind those figures in my artwork are the epitomes of apocalypse from nature.