Ying Xu
The Boundary of the Body
In this series, I explore the body as a site of crossing — a threshold between the visible and the felt, the inherited and the self-defined.
Fragments of bodies emerge against the quiet surface of porcelain patterns: legs suspended, torsos faceless, forms poised between object and being.
The smoothness recalls both vulnerability and control — the discipline of porcelain and the discipline of the body.
Within these restrained compositions, I question how identity is shaped, divided, and sometimes silenced by cultural and visual boundaries.
Living between China and Switzerland, I experience the body as a space of translation — a membrane through which memory, language, and belonging pass.
The boundary is not a line; it is a field of transformation, where what is foreign and what is familiar coexist in fragile equilibrium.
Each painting becomes a meditation on that threshold — where silence speaks, and form becomes perception.
Monologue II, 2012, Bleistift / Acryl auf Baumwollgewebe, 80 x 80 cm Private Collection
Details Monologue II, 2012
Blue Rhyme,2013,
Acryl / Bleistift, Baumwollgewebe
50 x 50 cm Private Collection
China Blue I, 2012, Bleistift und Acryl auf Leinwand
50 x 50cm SOLD
China Blue II, 2013
Bleistift / Acryl auf Baumwollgewebe, 50 x 50cm SOLD
China Blue III, 2013
Bleistift und Acryl auf Leinwand 50 x 50cm SOLD
An Allegory Of Spring 2015, Acryl / Bleistift, Baumwollgewebe, Duchmesser 60cm
An Allegory Of Summer 2015, Acryl / Bleistift, Baumwollgewebe, Duchmesser 60cm SOLD
An Allegory Of Autumn, 2015, Acryl / Bleistift, Baumwollgewebe, Durchmesser 60cm SOLD
Details Monologue III, 2012, Acryl / Bleistift, Malkarton, Durchmesser 40cm SOLD
ohne Titel, 2013, Acryl / Bleistift auf Papier, 26 x 26cm
ohne Titel, 2013, Acryl / Bleistift auf Papier, 26 x 26cm
Ya 2013, Acryl / Bleistift, Baumwollgewebe, Duchmesser 60cm
Yi 2013, Acryl / Bleistift, Baumwollgewebe, Duchmesser 60cm
Yuan 2013, Acryl / Bleistift, Baumwollgewebe, Duchmesser 60cm
