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The Gridkind
2025 Play 4
2021 Light
The Conjuring
Acrylic paint on paper and wood 30 × 30 cm
Copper, enamel, stainless steel 7 × 7 × 1.6 cm
Video 11 min 48 sec
Metal, chicken wire, artificial fur, cardboard 130 × 120 × 25 cm
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jiahuijewellery Jiahui Huang
Jianxiong Qu
jjaayyz Jie Zhu
jiyoonyi Ji Yoon Lee
Jianxiong Qu, an American artist born in Guangzhou, graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Design. From 1984 to 1997, Qu served as Head of the Department of Oriental Art at Nankai University, later becoming Associate Professor. Between 2004 and 2016, Qu was Professor and Head of the Department of Integrated Arts at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, where Qu continues to teach. Light reconstructs the paradigm of public art through a single laser beam. Jianxiong Qu presents light as both the knife that divides the world and the thread that sews civilisation together. As a carrier of collective memory, it restores a sense of belonging as citizens look upward. When the beam disappears into the night, it leaves an eternal threshold in perception. By freeing public art from material form, Qu transforms light into an invisible medium and turns public art into a catalyst for social connection.
Jiahui Huang is a jewellery artist whose practice explores the relationship between geometric order, material logic and embodied play. Influenced by Bauhaus and minimalist aesthetics, Huang creates tactile objects that balance precision with spontaneity. Centring on circular forms and adaptable moulds, her work employs repetition and variation to evoke rhythm and intuitive engagement. Play 4 develops from a focus on movement and playfulness, using geometric forms to explore the tension between order and contingency. The project seeks balance between rational order and unpredictability. Motion-capture experiments, form pressing, and multi- mould structures test the boundaries of control and change. The logic of play informs mould design, material texture, interactive wearability, and colour strategies, resulting in works that combine structural clarity with dynamic, sensual possibilities.
Jie Zhu is a Beijing-born artist with a background in fashion, bringing a sensitivity to body, material and structure into her practice. Working primarily with mixed media, Zhu explores the tensions between body and matter, memory and identity, and the interplay of personal experience with social frameworks. Through this approach, Zhu seeks to create works that reflect both vulnerability and resilience. The Conjuring takes inspiration from the wire-and-stone fences that line British streets. These structures mark, contain, and preserve order, shaping the rhythms of everyday space. The work becomes a silent performance about boundaries and what seeps through them. The clash between materials transforms into metaphor: soft artificial fur pressing slowly through rigid metal mesh, not as escape but as steady intrusion, a wordless resistance to imposed structures.
Ji Yoon Lee is a South Korean-born artist based in Edinburgh. She joined the thematic residency at Arteles Creative Centre in Finland in 2019 and in 2023 was invited as a guest artist for the GoMA Youth Group’s summer programme in Glasgow. The Gridkind seeks to reveal the neglected corporeality of existence within the grid of digital networks. The digital media environment is not simply a shift in lifestyle but a phenomenon that fundamentally restructures the perceptual framework and spatial aesthetics of contemporary life. Sensory experiences and memories once accumulated within physical space are gradually disappearing, replaced by vision-centred encounters mediated through digital interfaces.
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