XIN HUANG


2024
Memory to Let

2023
Authentic, Efficient and Practical Signs

2022
It Is a Serious Instruction
I Buried Bombs in All Areas Except on This Line
GAS-X: RULES OF GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT
Stories and Text for Nothing
Let Us Part Ways After This One Last Smoke
A Long Distance Walk
You Have to Peel the Skin to See the Pulp
I Was Designed to Be Used for Three Months
It Will Come to an End and Then Begin Again

2021
The Funeral of an Orange

2020
What Should We Eat After Dreaming?
The Spotlight

2019
There Is Nothing Outside the Trace (Series)
         There Is Nothing Outside the Trace - Improvisation
         There Is Nothing Outside the Trace - Performance
         There Is Nothing Outside the Trace - Installation

2018
Hollow (Series) 
         Hollow - Stone
         Hollow - Wood
         Hollow - Metal



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IT IS A SERIOUS INSTRUCTION 2022


Four screen video installation, Durantion: 13:09


"It is a Serious Instruction" (2022–2023) , An ongoing project that critically explores power dynamics through installation, moving image, and text. The series includes the following sub-works: GAS-X: Rules of Guidance and Support (2022), I Buried Bombs in This Area Except on This Line (2022), and Authentic, Efficient, and Practical Signs (2023). These works exaggerate, distort, and satirize conventional rules and instructions to investigate the relationships of authority and control between the artwork and the viewer. By transforming individual experiences of social power, I reframe them as interactions within the work itself, subtly revealing the power structures that shape broader social contexts.





‘The doctor finishes his examination and his conclusions are very reassuring to us. His cordial and somber voice precedes the medicines, prescriptions for which he is writing out at the moment, seated behind his desk. Every once in a while he raises his head and smiles, to cheer us up. We don’t have a thing to worry about, we’ll be better inside of a week. We sit at ease in our easy chair, happy, and look idly and distractedly about the room. In the shadowed area beneath the desk, suddenly we see the doctor’s legs. The trousers are pulled up to just above the knees and he’s wearing women’s stockings.’