In the second half of 1984, O’Brien, a faithful member of the Inner-Party, gave us a vivid picture how the torture of the body would effect on the human will and humanity. He brought Winston to the front of a mirror. When Winston saw his own deformed body, he couldn’t help but collapsed.
＜—— 2005
Time and again I faced the crowd,
Tried to distinguish them by all means,
Facing them,
One, stands for all
“ALL”, “ANYONE” and “EVERYONE”
Before 2005, most of Xiang Jing’s sculptures concentrated on the individuals in daily life. She tried to create the right atmosphere, make her sculptures alive, and build a mental space for people to imagine. These are the categorized scenes of people in metropolis. Just like a set of pictures that Xiang Jing loved and took, her sculptures are the materialized scenes out of her albums. Facing these soundless and static sculptures, unconsciously our feeling will be led to a dysphoric noon under the burning sun, a depressing and tiresome dusk, an anxious and sleepless midnight, a second when cigarette ash drops, or a moment we look into the mirror and get lost… Every sculpture brings us to the instant when it came into being. But that is not to show eternity, or momentary eternity — which is the aim of monuments — the frozen time in Xiang Jing’s sculptures is just some “moments”, which will invite you to some touching scenes and circumstances in the present time.
The sculptures of Xiang Jing are suitable to live in groups. Surrounded by the figures interacting with each other, you will face the world which was frozen into stones all of a sudden — in this suddenness, no one can escape from the sight of Medusa and her curse. However, Xiang Jing’s creation is far from those solemn, dead and grey sculptures, which are the impressions that we already have. Her works are so colorful, so happy and so light-footed while our daily life itself is hard and heavy.
The sculptures of Xiang Jing are in the state of