Xiao Yang

Lives and works in Buffalo, NY, USA

Artist statement

Xiao Yang is an intermedia artist whose performance series of works utilize nonlinguistic, bodily communication to explore the physical threshold of one’s own body that challenges the social discipline; while the concurrent painting installation series aims to recontextualize the industrial and chemical material into an artistic medium which is catalyzed by her experience at a Bio lab of that the visual form of the micro-organism under the microscope. It serves as the initial reference for the prototype creating process. Both of her ongoing series explore the concept of metaphor, linguistic versus non linguistic representation, symbolization, and a sense of boundary. Her work has been focused onto fostering a dialogue regarding the mechanism of collision, conflict, irruption versus the coping mechanism within the notion of trauma. The works also decode the deeply psychological connotations of the mundane objects as Yang explores their (mis)usage within her repetitive actions. Therein, the attempt of her to invite viewers to voyeur the disturbing interactions between living and non-living beings reveals in the recontextualized circumstance. Yang’s works are often presented as video installation, abstract paintings, images, and on-site performances. The application of the mundane objects to a work can blur the boundaries between art and the objects, the audience and the work itself, and even between art and common life. These elements are intertwined together for the sake of...

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