ink on stretch cloth, aluminium alloy frameMou Projects
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The striking triptych features a bold, unconventional presentation. The vibrant red and blue hues create a dynamic visual interplay, while the sharp geometric shapes and fragmented, collage-like compositions lend a sense of depth and complexity. The artwork appears to explore themes of advertising, popular culture, and the interplay between the physical and the virtual. The artist's distinctive style and innovative techniques push the boundaries of traditional painting, inviting the viewer to engage with the work on multiple levels. This piece likely reflects the artist's commentary on the increasing pervasiveness of digital media and the evolving nature of modern visual culture. ...
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. ...
MOU PROJECTS (formerly known as MINE PROJECT) is a Hong Kong-based contemporary art gallery established in 2019. Since its inception, the gallery has been dedicated to showcase both local and international emerging artists working in all media and has held many of their first solo exhibitions in Hong Kong as well as in Asia. With an aim to facilitate artistic dialogues and conceptual innovations, the gallery supports artists whose experimental practices and boundary-pushing ethos reflect the current social reality and manifest an alternative contemporary aesthetics. ...
