
Shafei Xia
Your ship is not sailing, 2024

SHAFEI XIA
Born in 1989 in Shaoxing, China
Lives and works in Bologna, Italy
Irreverent, amusing, impertinent, erotic, but extremely refined. The painting of Shafei Xia is elegant and refined, like that of the Japanese shunga or the Chinese erotic paintings of the 1800s, though it also reminds us of the cultured narcissism of Luigi Ontani, with its citations and oriental overtones.
When everyone plays seriously, I am the tiger, but I am also the orchestra conductor who creates problems. To break the boredom.

Your ship is not sailing, 2024

The Dressing Table, 2021

Fight and the party, 2024

Dollhouse, 2022


Crema, 2021



Bystander, 2023

I am still me, 2023

Together, 2025

I have a flower for you, 2025

Same bed, different dreams, 2025

Passing like smoke, 2025

Sotto le stelle, 2025

I will be your mirror, 2023

A dream, 2025

The Infinite Woman