Body as Everything, Paraphrases of Xiang Jing’s Works

models, prototypes in life, like most colleagues, though she loves to observe these interesting people and never lets go any amusing details.
They are not real lives, but only sculpture works created by Xiang Jing according to her subjective feelings, and the projection and reflection of Xiang Jing’s internal psychology and subconscious. I suppose, we may think in this way, what they reflect is the solar periods of Xiang Jing’s internality in some extent.
In style, they may be considered as realistic, as they have the real bodies. However different from usual realism, they obviously have the elements of freehand brushwork. The elements of freehand brushwork are not only reflected in ways of art expression, such as the figures’ modeling and subjective coloring, but also quite abstract and spiritual, such as those uncertain and ambiguous emotions, conditions and flavors. This is a complicated aspect of Xiang Jing’s works. Therefore, paraphrasing Xiang Jing’s works must and ought to be multi-spective and multi-level.

YOUR BODY
Why is it “Your Body”? Doesn’t “your” mean to give away oneself or woman’s right to decide her own body? Would it be misunderstood and tarnish female dignity? After all the concept that woman could have the right to control her own body gradually became deeply rooted among the people after long-term struggle. Up till now, we still may not tell whether its basis is very steady or not. Compared with the long history of woman’s loss of this right, its history is still very short.
Thus, when asking for her permission if I could use one work’s name Your Body as the exhibition’s name, I brought forward my doubt to get her answer. Here, I summer up Xiang Jing’s answer in this way; Your Body doesn’t aim at the body itself, but actually indicates a kind of attitude and position. Usually people assume that woman’ body presented by art has to be perfec, as there have been some fixed standards for reference and people have got many prejudices. However, Xiang Jing creates these female bodies, wishing to break the prejudices. They have nothing to do with beauty or ugliness, I just try my best to present the reality, the final images may be beautiful