Peng Jian was born in 1982 in Yueyang, Hunan, China. As his father was an engineer, Peng grew up surrounded by well-planned, highly complex architectural calculations and was inspired with the interest and attention in art. In 2013, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and obtained a master's degree. Peng Jian's works are bright and bold, and the lines are sharp and angular, guiding the architecture of traditional Chinese "boundary paintings". He used the tools of the ruler that brought the building to life during the imperial system.

As one of the representatives of the New Ink art, Peng used and developed the method of ancient Chinese "boundary painting" by combining abstract geometric forms and traditional spatial expression with colours. In recent years, he has begun to create mix media works. As a collector of antique objects, including wooden boxes from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period, Peng presents here his new installation piece, which is transformed from a basket from his antique collection. The artist takes out one of the drawers from the narrow and compact structure of the wooden box normally suitable for storing snacks and small kitchen utensils, uses a layer of blue acrylic sheet to represent the waves, and combine brightly coloured spheres reminisce of waterdrops. The installation echoes the application of geometry and colour, and creates a surreal connection between the narrow and confined physical space and the conflict between the waves, the old wooden box and the acrylic material.

彭劍，1982年生於中國湖南嶽陽。 2013年畢業於中國美術學院國畫系，獲碩士學位。現工作、生活於杭州。
彭劍的創作，將原本存在於客觀現實中的某些美好的面貌，隱藏在藝術形式裡面，給客觀現實注入了新的精神意蘊，醞釀出一種美好的氛圍或狀態。對此，彭劍曾經說過：“在有限的空間內定義不同的對象，我不僅是為了描繪一個特定的形象，更重要的是希望以像徵手法來表達隱藏而有深度的意義。”他通過隱喻的方式將自身的主觀意願投射到了客觀現實中去，而這種客觀現實又是作者主觀構建的一個新時空——我們現實世界裡熟知的魔方、積木、不同顏色的球體——在這裡所有的事物都超越了本來的物性，呈現出人性的意義。

如此這般，經由創作而出色彩看起來真實而又純粹。但又不拘於對象之中，似乎懸浮在對象之上，讓色彩看起來有了無定形的主觀姿態。