Current Exhibition
Yang Xin
Layering into Void
2026.03.14 - 05.03
Triumph Gallery will present artist Yang Xin's latest solo exhibition "Layering into Void" from March 14 to May 3, 2026. Curator by Sun Lei, the exhibition features over twenty sculptures from the artist's recent practice, including works from the "Planet Series," "Empty Garment Series," "Forever Series," and "Light-Year Series," complemented by key sketches, drawings, and video works, offering a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the artist's latest creative trajectory.Yang Xin's sculptures establish a mechanism of resistance from within: they are silent, hard, space-occupying, and refuse easy transformation. With the stubbornness of matter, the purity of form, and the openness of spirit, they confront his own body, actions, and existential experience, as well as a traditional presence. He avoids narrative as much as possible, does not overly rely on symbolism, nor deliberately cater to interpretation. Instead, he establishes an aesthetic ethics belonging to the language itself, existing only between the texture of stone, the layering of blocks, and the breathing of emptiness.Layering takes substance as its foundation.Yang Xin's sculptures contain a stubborn power, originating from piety toward objects and reverence for the stone itself. Especially since his prototypes derive from grotto art and Buddhist statuary, he can always access a deeper, more intrinsic power of faith. He insists on pulling us back into a kind of substance—back into the weight of stone, back into a material site that can be touched, confronted, and gazed upon for a long time. Therefore, Yang Xin's "layering" is a reaffirmation of the dignity of matter, constantly reinforcing this confirmation.Transformation takes void as its body. Yang Xin's transformation is a gentle loosening of substance, a prudent dissolution of form. It allows closed things to open anew, hard things to generate gaps, and complete things to move toward incompletion. The essence of transformation is not disappearance, but liberation— liberation of form, liberation of meaning, liberation of reality bound tightly by appearance. The meaning of emptiness evoked by "transformation" is essentially the revelation of an Eastern philosophy. It does not point toward nothingness, but toward a humble waiting, a modest promise of what has not yet arrived.Layering is concentration; transformation is state of mind. Layering is persistence; transformation is transparency. And true beauty is born precisely between substance and void, at the moment of layering and transformation. This is also the most simple truth that stone teaches us.This is Yang Xin's "Layering into Void" (Die Hua Jue).
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