After Today Art Museum in Beijing and MOCA Shanghai, Xiang Jing’s Will things ever get better? solo exhibition is coming to MOCA, Taipei for her last stop of the tour. In addition to its special arrangement of the space, the exhibition in Taipei also includes several representative artworks from her celebrated series of the female body. The new solo exhibition contains some of her best works from the “Naked Series” (2008) to “Will things ever get better?” series (2011), which brings the total number of artworks to 24 pieces. It is the artist’s largest solo exhibition in recent years.

Xiang Jing’s art, through her language of the statuary and body, reveals her questionings of life and art. They are her enlightened thoughts and doubts about the past, present, and future, inspiring the audience to look into their own minds and the issues within. Sometimes macroscopic, sometimes observant towards the world’s vanity and absurdity, she throws out this question to the general public with her penetrating yet sensitive vision: will things ever get better?

Actually, this question does not need an answer. Good or bad is simultaneously objective in baffling appearances as well as subjective due to personal judgment and the self-deceiving human nature. When the artist raises a question, she implicitly intends to interfere with this world. Whoever answers the question exposes his personal situation. As the uncertainty principle in quantum physics dictates, when one thinks that any correct answer is at hand, one could not help but interfering with the masses and positions of the particles. Therefore, the so-called absolute truth is simply a mask of the deity of emptiness.

Xiang Jing’s exhibition at MOCA, Taipei includes her works of the female body, the acrobats, and the animals, which all point to a universal and serious issue: the circumstances of survival. Her works of the female body links