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Xiong Yanjun’s artistic practice oscillates between the boundaries of materials and their dissolution. He regards wood, stone, wax, and industrial materials as entities with their own will - they are not passive mediums, but sentient, variable, and generative symbiotic beings. He abandons control over the materials and instead "go with the flow", seeking the "empty" state in the interweaving of chance, fragmentation, and internal order. His works are like a slow alchemical process: traditional imagery such as landscapes and objects are reformed in their deconstruction, continuing the Eastern aesthetic of emptiness while integrating the material poetics of post-industrialism. Here, "emptiness" is no longer an abstract concept, but a tension in the transformation of matter, the perceptible glimmer of light through the cracks. Through these mixed-media works, he invites viewers to re-perceive space with their bodies - touch is awakened, and vision no longer dominates. The sense of touch, texture, and temperature become his language, reaffirming the intimate connection between the body and the object in Eastern aesthetics. He uses "emptiness" as a path, allowing objects to transcend human projections and become the site of events.
Xiong Yanjun was born in Liu’an, Anhui Province in 1977. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Anhui Normal University (B.A.) in 2001; and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Nanjing University in 2008 (M.F.A.) . He now works and lives in Wuhu, Anhui Province.
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