Ke Yi · Behind the Scenes Project: Episode II — Song Yuxiang's Solo Exhibition "The Way an Island Stands" opens on 14th June . This exhibition will present the artist’s latest video work, Fixed Star, guiding viewers into a dynamic landscape traversing intimate memory and collective history, while exploring the artist’s unique reflections on time and existence. The exhibition runs through 30th July .
Titled "The Way an Island Stands," "island" here does not refer to boundaries, but rather to the individual’s state of being within a structure — an intermittent spiritual posture of perceiving the world. It gradually emerges in the space between the everyday and the historical moment — slowly, ambiguously. It is a tension that lies between silence and witnessing: a faint resistance against the inertia of everyday life.
Fixed Star tells the story of autumn 2024, when Xun Shuchen returned to her aging home, nestled in a neighborhood that had long awaited demolition. Shrouded in dust and silence, like a blind spot the city refuses to see. While sorting through old belongings, she stumbled upon a diary from her child’s early years. Between the lines, a vanished world takes shape. She read about the many unresolved mysteries that lingered in that world, and countries she had never heard of...
Song Yuxiang’s artistic practice seeks to reconcile reality and fiction, exploring the generative patterns of individual inner experience. The meaning of reality does not lie in its surface order, but in how it is mapped by the subject into a dynamic inner landscape.
In the process of navigating life, the individual is often not a coherent or self-contained whole, but an unfinished structure continuously formed through a relational gaze with the other. This non-dominant mode of existence renders the individual a form of self that blurs continuously in hesitation.
