Ying Xu
MENDING AS A MANNER
resee
revive
rethink
restore
rebuild
reconstruction
を繕う、〜を直す
Mending or stitch are the common methods of repairing clothes to keep it in shape or hold something together with minimal damage. Originated from Japan, Visible Mending / Sashiko is rooted in people' living philosophy, similar concept you also can find in repairing the brocken pottery, which called Kintsugi, these are the concepts of rethink the ordinary things around us, facing and embracing the tough times we have been through, and accpeting the imperfection in our life.
In this series < Mending As A Manner> ,objects are used methaphorically, by using the Sashiko technique, I was trying to keep the objects stays in it's original form, or creating/reconstruct it into a new form,
the well-intentioned action of ' Mending' may became contraditional, together with the intangible time, can be seen as external factors or sometimes even a coercive force that given to the objects, changes the original nature of the objects.
Aktuelle Ausstellung
Das Flicklabor - The Mending Laboratory
12.03.2023 - 04.06.2023, Kunstkästen
Schaffhausen,Switzerland
Der rote Faden, der sich durch das Flicklabor zieht
Archiv
The Restricted Nature- I
Day 1
Orchideen, rote Faden, 2019
Day 3
Orchideen, rote Faden, 2019
Day 26
Orchideen, rote Faden, 2019
The Restricted Nature - II
Day 1
Blume, rote Faden, 2019
Day 2
Blume, rote Faden, 2019
The Restricted Nature - III
Orchideen, rote Faden, 2020
The Restricted nature - III
Orchideen, rote Faden, 2020
I Am In You
Orchideen, rote Faden, 2020
Wo und - Wound
Grüne Anthurie, rote Faden,2022
Wo und - Wound
Grüne Anthurie, rote Faden, 2022
Rosa Anthurien, rote Faden, 2021
" When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. "
— Georgia O' Keefe
Surgery
Plastic Surgery-I
Avocado Haut, rote Faden,2021
Plastic Surgery-III
Avocado Haut, rote Faden, 2022
Plastic Surgery-I
Feige , rote Faden, 2020
Scar
There is no two scars are identical, neither are the stories behind them. Everyone goes through tough times, everyone has trauma, nature isn’t perfect and neither are we, the opposites complement each other as part of a process that flows and makes become one into another. As it happens with our bodies, a scar is a reminder of an experience, a story that, instead of being hidden, should be known and embrace because it adds value to the object, making it unique.
SCAR - I 2021
Ceverlat Haut, rote Faden
SCAR - II 2021
Ceverlat Haut, rote Faden
Since I've started my mending projects, I started to observing things in different ways, to pay a greater attention to the very modest and imperfect objects, to see the beauty of it. To accept and to appreciate it's own state, and to rethink about myself.
“合”（hé）in the Chinese traditional cultural , it symbolizes reunion, happiness and togetherness. Can embroidering the word "合" on a cut and eaten tangerine change its already damaged nature?
Mending - keeping 2021
Mandarine , rote Faden
Mending - keeping 2021
Mandarine , rote Faden
Mending on the move
I created this work during the time when I and my family visited São Tomé and Príncipe, Africa. The exotic flower Etlingeria Elatior( also called Porcelain Rose) is the symbol of the country, it is commonly found in the forest, and popular for decoration, but for me, it has something more than just a decoration. Surounded by the infinite vitality of nature, watching the flowers blooming and fading, suddenly I felt an inexpicable sadness.
A desire of protecting and sealing up that kind of beauty and frangibility arised, I carefully stitched up the petals and kept it until the last day of our trip, then I gently unravel the stitched petals and open it one by one, it returned to the state colse to the beginning.
Mending-Keeping
2019,São Tomé und Príncipe
Blume, Blauer Faden