This exhibition is a series of paper-cut works "Tree of Life" created by Huirong Han in 2023. During her visit to the School of Art, Design and Art History at James Madison University in the United States, Huirong Han inspected American folk art and believed that the theme of "Tree of Life" has attracted much attention in world civilization regardless of region. She uses paper-cutting as an artistic language and combines it with the theme of "Tree of Life" to create contemporary art. The Tree of Life’s thinking on the philosophical viewpoint of “all living creatures come from the same origin and harmonious coexistence” is materialized and transformed into a form that is easily accepted by the contemporary public, evoking warmth in people’s memories.

Huirong Han is an associate professor at the School of Art and Media, Beijing Normal University, China. She is a paper-cut and experimental artist. In 2023, she is the visiting scholar at Fibers Art, School of Art, Design and Art History James Madison University. Her co-supervisors are Fibers Head, Professor Rob Mertens and Dean Professor Mikyoung Lee.

Huirong Han's Major Research Field is the research on experimental art, traditional language conversion, and Chinese folk art.

She has curated many important exhibitions and her works have participated in many domestic and foreign exhibitions. She also publishes monographs, textbooks, and papers.

She has been passionate about paper art and traditional folk art since she was a child. She believes that besides inheriting skills, artists should be good at discovery and re-creation.Combining traditional art methods with contemporary ones, and expressing appropriately is the key.