Help Yourself (Large) by Issy Wood. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Featuring porcelain tableware, another two series, Helping Yourself and Serve You Right, were done in a similar vein. They conjure up zoomed-in images on a phone screen, which the artist, born in 1993, revealed as an inspiration gained from browsing social media platforms.

The tableware, as Wood told the curators, was found in the pages of auction catalogues dating back to the 1970s and '80s that she found in her grandma's house.

The fuzzy, out-of-focus feel of the paintings recalls images one sees from the outside of a dusty window or photographs discoloring with age.

"The way she renders the old objects makes me feel as if they were fading away," said curator Huang Xufu, who co-founded X Museum in 2020.