Sichong Xie

My practice​ combines movement and material in body-based sculptural forms, including masks, costumes, and other objects. By placing traditional sculptural forms within new sites, materials, and social constructs, I investigate these forms and movements within global communities to reconsider 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. My current project features an array of objects and movements - bamboo scaffolding, industrial privacy screen, sound, and durational performance - through which I reimagine the architectural drawing my grandfather created in late 1950s and early 1960s. I draw attention to invisible labor behind each architecture by incorporating an industrial privacy screen throughout the installation as a way of repurposing a mass-produced material that is commonly used between construction zones and industrial sites.

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Bio

Sichong Xie​ combines movement and material in body-based sculptural forms, including masks, costumes, and other objects. By placing traditional sculptural forms within new sites, materials, and social constructs, Xie investigates these forms and movements within global communities to re-consider and re-envision shared spaces and performative practices. She raises questions about identity, politics, cross-culturalism, and the surreal characteristics of her body in the ever-changing environment. ​Xie received her MFA ​from the California Institute of the Arts, CA. Her most recent multi-media installation “Memory Structure, Scaffold Series” is currently on view at Wende Museum in Culver City, CA. She was a fellowship artist at The Studios at​ MASS MoCA, The Watermill Center and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. In 2017, Xie was chosen to participate at Hauser & Wirth Somerset exchange residency in Bath, UK where she created a four-hour durational performance/installation “Walking With The Disappeared”. Recent exhibitions include the Wende Museum, Los Angeles, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, OCAT Art Museum in Xi’An, China, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Automata Arts, Los Angeles, Chashama Gallery, New York, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, and The Watermill Center, New York.