Sichong Xie

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

I'm a multidisciplinary artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles.​ My practice combines materiality, movement, and performance of memory through elemental media and site-specific installations. By placing traditional sculptural forms within new sites, materials, and social constructs, I investigate these forms and movements within global communities to re-consider and re-envision shared spaces and performative practices. My practice raises questions about identity, politics, cross-culturalism, and the surreal characteristics of my body in the ever-changing environment. As an immigrant artist, I'm interested in the research of human populations, their geographical locations, and the resulting cultural movements, I strive to create work that reflects the importance of the spaces we find ourselves in and their impact on our lives. In my most current project, "Trampoline House: Memory Drawing Series," at the Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles, I transform a playground into a stage of temporal disintegration. Drawing from children’s games and the rawness of construction site materials, this durational performance/installation collapses the boundaries between play and labor. A trampoline becomes the platform for a living drawing, where a large chalk piece is layered over original architectural blueprints from my grandfather in the 1960s. Every memory is an empty theater, a space that once held meaning and is now gradually fading into oblivion. As the durational...

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