Xiong Jiaxiang 熊佳翔

Xiong Jiaxiang (b.1991, Shanghai, China) focuses on image installation with mixed media. He has long investigated the conditions of image production and its impact. His works are always in dialogue with important works in the history of art. He combines his thoughts with the ideas of important artists in history, but quite personally and stubbornly contradicts them and puts them into practice. Fabric-based everyday items are the symbol of Xiong’s practice. They are used to trigger collective and personal memory and social history, put attention on and capture the generation of the body, virtual and reality. His works present the contradictory dilemma in contemporary people's life and examine cultural phenomena such as pop culture and the physical nature, everyday nature, and landscape of life. They are metaphors for and capture the "flow of modernity" that exist in contemporary society because of the globalization of capital, and oppose the abstract universality brought by globalization. Xiong Jiaxiang uses an elegant and dynamic narrative method to describe the world, as well as the virtual initiative he holds in himself to create images, creating a universal and new emotional connection with the world. In his view, the "rupture" between the images is the place where poetry is stored. ...