About the Artist 关于艺术家
熊晓宇 XIONG Xiaoyu / Sherry
Xiaoyu (Sherry) Xiong is a China and the UK based artist, she holds an MA degree on Graphic Design and Art direction from Manchester School of Art, after that she participated in the art residence project in South of China funded by the British Council in 2021 starting her career as an artist. She is now graduating from the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art Which supported by CSC (China Scholarship Council). Xiaoyu’s creative mediums are programming and printmaking. The forms of works are mainly moving images, interactive installations and Screen-printing. Recently, the art practice mainly focuses on the subjective images of individuals behind art heritages, she prefers to based on the methodology of Everyday Life to use different materials which from the heritage sites to develop and extend the understandings and thinking.
Her work "listen to her" (Interactive Moving images, 2021) won a GDC Gold Award and participated in the GDC global exhibition. The work was collected by Guan Shanyue Art Museum (Shenzhen) and appeared on the cover of Art and Design magazine. Recently, the moving image work "Glasgow in my Eyes" was shortlisted for the visual arts Scotland Century Exhibition.
About the Work 关于作品
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Words is not only generated within the human community but also emerges from the interplay and contact between the human community and the animate landscape, born of the dynamic relationship with the more-than-human world (Abram, 1996). Languages such as Gaelic, Chinese, Mongolian, Hindi, and others have actively or passively participated in the processes of historical and societal changes. Growth, death, and rebirth. In this process of evolution, the expression of human thoughts, emotions, and feelings has passed through the creation of words, natural existence, and the laws of natural behaviour. This joint construction gives rise to both abstract and concrete social forms, with the social significance they generate contributing to the construction of new social structures and hierarchical configurations (Ghosh, 2006). At present, in the environments of both the United Kingdom and China, Gaelic is being revived, learning oracle bone inscriptions is becoming a popular trend, and various declarations and ideologies are seeping into publics’ everyday life. Words is gradually more become like a code; People cannot discern whether words are a means of perceiving the “real” world or if they have lost their inherent, non-arbitrary connection to that world (Abram, 1996). People lost in different words and sounds, unable to distinguish. Philosopher and ecologist Abram (1996) believes that words are living language, a way to dialogue with the world rather than explain the world. Art historian and archaeologist K.C.Chang (1983) believes that words and images are two powerful tools that people have used to seize power since ancient times. Philosopher Foucault (1989) believes that perception is a "never-said" discourse, and it cannot be expressed through words. And the body, as the subject of discourse, is also subject to the constraints of language. (Hingis, 1994) In total, it is undeniable that from the distant past to the present, although the forms of words have evolved, the profound influence of their underlying symbols remains evident (Ferrara, 2022). Words are theirselves power, which worth to be explored again and again (Bourdieu，1991).
文字将去向何方？
词语不仅产生于人类社会内部，而且产生于人类社会与有生命的景观之间的相互作用和接触，产生于与超人类世界的动态关系（Abram，1996）。盖尔语、汉语、蒙古语、印地语等语言都主动或被动地参与了历史和社会变迁的过程。成长、死亡和重生。在这个进化过程中，人类思想、情感和感受的表达经历了文字的创造、自然存在和自然行为的规律。这种共同建构产生了抽象和具体的社会形式，它们所产生的社会意义有助于新的社会结构和等级结构的构建（Ghosh，2006）。目前，在英国和中国的环境中，盖尔语正在复兴，学习甲骨文正在成为一种流行趋势，各种宣言和意识形态正在渗透到公众的日常生活中。文字逐渐变得更像代码；人们无法辨别文字是否是感知“真实”世界的一种手段，或者它们是否已经失去了与那个世界固有的、非任意的联系（Abram，1996）。人们迷失在不同的文字和声音中，无法辨别。哲学家和生态学家艾布拉姆（Abram，1996）认为，词语是活的语言，是一种与世界对话而不是解释世界的方式。艺术史学家和考古学家K.C.Chang（1983）认为，文字和图像是自古以来人们用来夺取权力的两种有力工具。哲学家福柯（1989）认为，知觉是一种“从未说过”的话语，它无法通过言语来表达。而身体作为话语主体，同样受到语言的制约。 （Hingis，1994）总的来说，不可否认的是，从遥远的过去到现在，尽管词语的形式已经演变，但其潜在符号的深远影响仍然显而易见（Ferrara，2022）。言语本身就是力量，值得反复探讨（Bourdieu，1991）。