The work of Chinese artist Shafei Xia (°1989. Lives and works in Bologna, IT) is irreverent, amusing, brash, erotic. Her watercolours on sandal wood paper on canvas portray sexual desire, craving, jealousy and violence. Her work is sometimes symbolic, sometimes explicit, but it always retains a delicate and refined character reminiscent of Japanese Shunga or Chinese erotic paintings of the 19th century.