Le Journal Qiu Jie

What is your work influenced by? How has your work evolved, and where do you think it will go next? What about the political element? Qiu Jie: I am a romantic, nostalgic and pictorial artist, not a conceptual artist. Firstly, in my pictures, I always search for the beauty of the conversation, ...

Our world is a vastly interconnected one. It’s almost a truism, by now, after decades of being inundated with promises of the transformative potential of globalisation and network technologies. Across the political spectrum, expressed in various art forms, interpretations and predictions ...

Why is drawing so important to you, as a medium? Qiu Jie: I have used pencil since I was a child when, in China, we did not have enough money to buy more material. I was forced to use what I had. When I started to study art at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, I … read more