Bess Xueyang Hu is a multidisciplinary visual artist with a focus on painting. Her works reference the intersection between sensation and emotional touch, seclusion and corporeal desire, as well as the unconscious and irrational dimensions of human existence. Most works are figurative paintings that lie between narrative and non-narrative, intentionally evading symbolic transformation and the representation of real space. Her practice also entails applying various materials to realise textural possibilities to enliven and strengthen the painterly surfaces, experimenting with different painting techniques and processes. She delves into the poetics of imagery formed by organising ideas, colour, composition and texture, trying to find a balance and fusion of expression, experimentation and resolution.