The digital domain has solidly established itself as an indispensable dimension of our reality: mobile supercomputing, intelligent robots and software, self-operated devices, self-driven cars, neurotechnological brain enhancements, genetic editing, virtual and augmented realities… This new technologically transmuted and enhanced reality fuses digital, physical and biological worlds, touching upon every possible discipline to the point it begins to challenge the idea of what it means to be real and what it means to be human…

It is this gaping wound - or what the artist refers to xiaxi (or crack in English) - in our collective consciousness and the effect it has on our capability to differentiate reality from its virtually enhanced simulation that Fu Shuai is referring to in his new series. His works present a vivid pictorial metaphor juxtaposing the ethereal omnipresence of the virtual amid the tangible materiality of the real.