XIONG Xiaoyu / Sherry 熊晓宇

“ …at the heart of this critical language, between several discourses, those of sociology, of semiology, and of psychoanalysis—but that, by ultimate dissatisfaction with all of them, I was bearing witness to the only sure thing that was in me (however naive it might be): a desperate resistance to any reductive system. For each time, having resorted to any such language to whatever degree, each time I felt it hardening and thereby tending to reduction and reprimand, I would gently leave it and seek elsewhere: I began to speak differently.”
                                                                                                     --   Roland Barthes (1980), Camera Lucida

        selected artworks 部分作品
An Emotional Poem 情绪诗, 2024
DNA mirror DNA镜子, 2024
Where_is_语言_مرضی_nehmen 나?, (文字将去向哪里？), 2024
1 Question ⋅20 People ⋅ 20 Glasgow ⋅ 20 World,
一个问题，20个人，20个格拉斯哥，20个世界,  2024
A Translation Experiment 一个翻译实验，2023
My  Hamburg, 汉堡，2023.
Glasgow in my Eyes,  格拉，2023
Identity，2023
Who  is Hui’an Woman?,谁是惠安女？，2022
Listen  to Her，看它说，2021
The Bite Ancient City, 跳动的古城，2021
The  Shape of Thought, 思想的形状, 2018
Under the Shadow - Match  Men,  光影之下 -“火柴人”, 2018

    projects 综合项目
    My word, My world, 我的文字宇宙，2023-now
    Art&Heritage Exhibition，艺术与遗产展览，2021-2023
    Soapbox Science & Art, The Choke, 窒息, 2018

      writings 观点写作
    The Malevolence of Words , 书写之恶，2023-2024
    The Rebellion of Words，文字的反叛，2024
    Colonial Arrogance: In the Name of Cultural Appropriation，
    殖民者的傲慢：以“文化挪用”为名，2022
    The Imagination of Words: Living Words, 文字的想象力：活着的文字，2023-2024

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    The Shape of Thought
    Interactive installation art work / 2018
    The work was invited 2018 Manchester School of Art Graduation Show as special work.
    Shortlisted for the 2019 Beijing Today Art Museum Young Artists Group Exhibition.



    The work was inspired by the Chinese thousand-buddha images, which is using continuous graphic repetition to make the abstract ideologies authentic and powerful, which lead to the individuals will be in awe of it. As Gilles believed that truthful repetition is completely artificial and contradicts everything that changes and develops naturally. I would like to express the civilized form which created by the authority through the fragmented reorganisation of free consciousness, so that people conform to the concrete society constructed by the ruler.

    In the final work, wood was used to make frames and coved by white fabric. When a person passes through the light, his shadow will be cutted into rectangles and installed in each frame. The people behind the screen present a completely simplified state on the screen.

    The image of Buddha is usually considered a sacred symbol. However, it has lost its aura in the writing of the Chinese writer Ma Jian, showing people’s desire and greed hidden in their hearts. Buddha is human, and human is Buddha. Behind the light are all living beings in the social framework.




    Interactive recording, Manchester School of Art, 2018.