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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    Under the Shadow - Match Men
    Interactive Installation / 2018


    In this installation artwork, I reinterpreted the Second Industrial Revolution oil painting Match Men with a new artistic expression. It is intended to show and discuss the life and psychological state of mancunians in different historical periods through the contemporary artistic expression of traditional oil paintings. The title of the work is “Under the Shadow–Match Men”, which means that the shadow and the object themselves are as inseparable as “past” and “present”. At the same time, they reflect their unique correlation like a mirror, like a dialogue across time and space.

    I chose “cotton yarn” and “metal”, representatives of the industrial revolution period of Manchester city, as the creative subjects, and made “3D” match man in one space. Then a new picture of a contemporary man of Manchester was illuminated on the wall. Small holes through the beam of light can focus on the details of the picture.

    Work process:


    Under the shadow - Match Men, 2018, Interactive sculpture.


    Under the shadow - Match Men, 2018, Interactive sculpture.


    Video recording, 2018, Manchester.

    In the exhibition, 2018, Manchester.