Sihan Guo is selected for the 2023 Season III: International Artist Residency Program of NARS Foundation
30 June 2023
Guo’s practice envisages the ontological dissociation and fragmentation of human subjectivity by reinventing formal relationships between painting and sculpture. In her work, the orientation toward a human-less, subject-less, and collapsed vision of space denotes an object-oriented fantasy overriding perceptions. Her inspiration comes from situations where human capability is alienated and relinquished, giving rise to impenetrable narratives. Through her back-and-forth sculpting of paint on surfaces, the almost present shapes are, however, quickly struck down beneath the negative space. Apparitions of figures and architecture are indefinitely incarcerated by this foiled attempt to proceed and be present onto the surface. What pulls for attention, then, is the landscape dissolving in-between presence and absence, reality and virtuality.
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