*presented by RONG Art Space

From December 4–8, BAISHUI is presenting her latest series of seven works, Raindrop (2024), at Art Basel Miami Beach. The project is featured in the installation by the environmental art platform, Land Art Forward, presented by Fredric Snitzer Gallery in the Meridians sector (M6).

BAISHUI’s Raindrop series and land artist Alan Sonfist’s artworks series Burning Forest are exhibited together as the art project Rebirth in the Inferno, which reflects the urgent environment situation brought by climate change as well as the hope of rebirth. The collaboration explores how contemporary artists interpret the evolving interplay between nature and technology across time and continents. They reflect on the potential for collective action to address the climate challenge and look to the future from artists’ perspectives, both Asian and Western.

Raindrop is a continuation of BAISHUI’s thinking on water. This time the artist has chosen the motif of the raindrop to interpret the story. The seven installation works in the Raindrop series at Art Basel Miami Beach depict different forms of a raindrop falling from clouds. The life of a raindrop is crystallized in them, from the moment of falling from the sky to the end point of hitting the ground and then dissipating. The life of a raindrop seems to be short, but the life of water never stops. Raindrops are formed by the evaporation of water vapor from rivers, lakes, and oceans. After falling, they seem to disappear, but they still exist in the air, rivers, plants, and animals. Thousands of times, they return to the sky and fall again. Every life is also the same one. The seven forms of raindrop become a picture of water’s life cycle.

Water an important source of inspiration for BAISHUI, whose works form a unique “cosmological view of water.” Water is as transparent as nothing, but in the flowing and soft way of water, people can see everything and themselves in it. In the artist’s past series Spring Water and Ocean, she explores water in different ways. In the Raindrop series, BAISHUI continues her artistic language of “magnifying tiny things.” When tiny raindrops become bigger than humans, the difference in size compels viewers to observe the shape of raindrops and to consider water in ways that they rarely pay attention to. Viewers will realize that even a single raindrop has many forms. The artist hopes that through the detailed description of the raindrop, the viewer’s habitual human-centered thinking will gradually dissipat. The artist has reversed the scale of objects in nature—raindrops and people. Through this transformation, the artist tries to inspire thinking from another angle to reflect on the relationship between people and natural objects, and between people and themselves.

About the artist BAISHUI

BAISHUI, currently residing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, is an international visual and installation artist. Embracing an unbounded approach, BAISHUI infuses art with a vivacious creativity, transforming profound contemplation into profoundly experiential and engaging artistic works, continually shaping an innovative, exploratory, and avant-garde style. Through a fusion of hand-drawing and AI digital painting techniques, collage methods, and the innovative use of synthetic materials, she creates distinctive easel paintings.

BAISHUI at Art Basel Miami Beach

December 4–8, 2024
Booth: Meridians #6
Miami Beach Convention Center
Miami Beach