Meditation on Floating Ice (documentary photos)
Giclée print on archival photo paper
Dimensions variable
Chengdu, China
The artist Xing Xin became famous at home and abroad for his "Black Box" series exhibited at the 2009 Venice Biennale. This time, in the art project "Meditation on Floating Ice", with his attention to the humanities and the environment, he personally intervened and changed the circulation of the Yangtze River water. Xing Xin and his team started driving from Chengdu, passing Danba, Daofu, Yushu, Hoh Xil and other places to the foot of Gradan East Snow Mountain, taking the ice at the source of the Yangtze River, then driving straight to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and melting this ice into the sea.
1981 in Chongqing, China
BFA, Sculpture Department, Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts, Chengdu
2010
Meditation on Floating Ice, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
2009
Venice on the other side – the third scene of "The Black Box", 53rd Venice Biennale Exhibition, Venice, Italy/ A4 Gallery, Chengdu, China
2011
Personal Structures, the 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
2010
PERSONAL STRUCTURES TIME-SPACE-EXISTENCE, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
2009
Artists Community Exhibition, 2009 The Fifth Cultural & Art Festival of SongZhuang China, Beijing
The First Chongqing Biennale, Chongqing
The 10th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, OPEN Contemporary Art Center, Beijing
Glasstress, Collateral Event of the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice
Macau Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Venice
Inward Gazes: Exhibition of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Arts 2008, Macau Museum of Art, Macau
2008
The 4th China Songzhuang Culture & Art Festival, The Progress of Songzhuang, Songzhuang Original Art Center, Beijing
UP-ON International Live Art Festival, Beicun Art Center, Chengdu
2007
The 3rd China-Japan Performance Art Exchange Project 2007, Sanshengxiang Art Village Start from Southwest, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong
Vital International Chinese Live Art Festival, 501 Contemporary Art Warehouse, Chongqing
"New Power, Nominated Exhibition 2007, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2006
The 7th OPEN International Performance Art Festival, 798 Art Center, Beijing
New Generation in Chengdu, Contemporary Art Exhibition in Macau, OX Warehouse, Macau
2005
Rights of the Body, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Blue Space Gallary, Chengdu
MIPAF05 Macao International Performance Art Exhibition, OX Warehouse, Macau
2004
Fei Fei Fei, Contemporarty Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2003
Making Objects, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Painting and Calligraphy Institute of Chengdu, Chengdu
2008
Merit Award of Inward Gazes: Exhibition of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Arts 2008, Macau Museum of Art