Full-face Nudity

Xiang Jing x Wei Xing:

status I was in previously. When I finished Your Body, the expression of such a part has become possible.
After that exhibition, I went on planning for a new group of works. Many of my works before were driven by my instincts. And the awareness of consciousness gradually formed at that time. I became able to surpassed the part of my own experience and quite clearly construct the frame of my future creation and try to express out a kind of thing of cognition. For this group of works, I clearly knew that I would make a conclusion to my female theme through such an exhibition. Creating works is just like speaking. You need to figure out how to express yourself more clearly and completely in order to communicate with others. So this group of works just narrows the themed thing down to a small topic to realize an expectation for deeper exploration.
From the perspective of the viewers, this group of works is just like the skin of life being torn off. Or it’s something exposed when a woman, a human, is stripped out of clothes. What you call abstract to me is us, the human beings, when the farraginous things were taken out of them. Actually, you may not even know them.
Wei Xing: That’s true. So I just said that the word I used just now was not quite correct. It’s more accurate to say that it’s not abstract but a natural human, a social person and a natural person. Your earlier works, works created before 2005, were expressions of social persons. But I feel your present works have got rid of such an element and become purer. And you pay more attention to the contemplation to the soul. In such contemplation, she is nude, without any clothes. She doesn’t need any dress for her identity. So what you practically present in this series of sculptures is a state of a natural person, instead of a specific social person.
They are a bit like the works of British sculptor Antony Gormley. He has ever said that body is an intimate, or to say, a private architecture. He hopes to evoke people’s subject experience through creating such an architectural structure. His works — because they don’t have the specific human facial features — are more radical. So it can be said that the form is more important than the content in his works. Or to put it,