Huixian Huang's artistic practice examines multiple ways of the expression of visual art concerning individual phenomenological experience and perception of time. Her work incorporates various mediums, including sculptures, installations, readymade objects, still and moving images. All those creates a certain kind of poetic, day-dreaming atmosphere to invite viewers to join the site-specific immersion of wide-ranging imagination of time.
Based on the knowledge of phenomenology, she tries to explore various possibilities of artistic methods about how the concept of phenomenal time in a bodily or conscious state can be reflected in a tangible world around us, in order to evoke to think of the meaning of life and time to human. The site-specific immersion or interaction with the objects, the projection of light and images, implying a certain form of the act of presenting, sensing, memorising and perceiving, play an important role in her artistic examination.
At the current stage, the artist attempts to employ the rhythm of the change of light and views of natural environment to form a structure of a certain kind of symbolic and poetic narrative. Furthermore, her work applies the aesthetic of the literary expression from novels, poems and films to enrich the on-site installation, which she called "a one-off lived experience".
Useless but Beautiful
"Useless but Beautiful", Mediums: video: 21min 43, voile, 2020 (please click on the edge of the frame to play)
"Life is too short,...", Mediums: printing, 2020
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"Views of Feelings", Mediums: Video, 2020
Dig out the light from a gentle night
‘Dig out the light from a gentle night', 4 mins 40, video, 2020
Under the ongoing lockdown in London, it seemed that the only public place people can enjoy is their casual time - somewhere to hang out in a park or garden near their homes. However, with longer and slower observation, one can experience the natural environment around us. We might have become more concerned about social changes in the weather its relationship to time as well as our emotional state.
In this work, I used a first-person perspective with a close-up lens to dig and tear a small hole on a piece of paper. I am attempting to show the sunlight hidden behind the paper through a small piece of wood in a film of the instant camera. I hope this work can evoke our memories of beautiful things in our daily life. Even in such a difficult time, we can still find a trace of solace in bits and pieces of life.
Some stills from ‘Dig out the light from a gentle night'
“One Day of Mind”
A small video covered by a piece of paper with a small hole is repeating playing in a loop of four scenes. Four tiny landscape with pure colours in the background. Four different colours represent a different time of the day. The water blue represents early morning, yellow - noon, orange – afternoon, dark blue – night.
She tends to use light elements or the projection of a series of unfocused images to reflect the abstract experience people often have in daily life: existing, memorizing, feeling and being aware, as well as the endless reverie in the subconscious bridging the past of life.
Among them, it can provide a kind of interpretation for the ambiguous time experience that exists in stages in the disappearance and pursuit of the long lifetime, or poetic realism, or romantic lightness, or obsessive epiphany.
