Pi Kai (China, b.1995) graduated with a master’s degree in printmaking from the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts and currently lives and works in Xi’an, China. Drawing inspiration from video game visuals, he creates new worlds composed of game backgrounds, characters, and plants. The composition of lines in his paintings divides the real and virtual worlds, with characters oscillating between the two. At times, they escape into the virtual realm to experience a beauty unattainable in the real world. This attempt to detach reflects the concealed relationship in contemporary society, where people shift their mental focus between reality and fiction. His works have been exhibited at the Xi’an Art Museum and Shanghai Suning Art Museum, among others.

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