"The art of Yuan Yuan (born in 1973) integrates East and West, links the individual with the collective, and fuses the imagined with the real. Yuan Yuan's work has won widespread international recognition, and his paintings have been exhibited in Paris, Berlin, New York, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei. While discussing his art in an interview, Yuan Yuan noted that I am very interested in those corners that people overlook because
they are too familiar with them or take them for granted. I start thinking
about how I can present them in a new way on my canvas, so that they
seem different to people … Because my paintings are so concrete, many
people are under the mistaken impression that I get my inspiration from
seeing a real place, but it's actually quite the opposite of that; I start
off with an indistinct abstract image in my mind, which may consist of
just a ray of light or a particular type of space, and then I take that as
my starting point, adding something more concrete to it, such as lines,
a ceiling, etc. … and through this process a realistic-looking scene gets
teased out.

In ""Keep Out"", the three panels show a scene from New York's Chinatown, a dilapidated building in London, and an abandoned factory building in Detroit. Although Yuan Yuan's detailed depictions of the buildings exclude any human figures, there are abundant signs of human activity in every corner, inspiring deep reflection. Of course, as the viewer stands entranced by the painting, pondering on the passing of time, they are themselves ""sacrificing"" precious time that they can never get back. "