Ships Passing

New Art Projects is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by Taiwanese artist Hsi-Nong Huang. Following the completion of her MA in Sculpture at The Royal College of Art, Huang lives and works in London.

At first glance, Huang’s recent practice explores the dialogue between sculpture, performance, sound and drawing with a focus on historic minimalist interventions and installations, however on further inspection a complex conversation between materials is revealed that both explore and represent an emotional relationship between ‘two halves’. In her sculptures, she creates a meeting point between materials that can hold hidden personal histories, preserve memories, and form a liminal space that allows her past once more to find its way into our present or her future.

Huang works almost exclusively with wood and metal. By placing metal next to wood, threading wood through metal and balancing metal with wood, she creates a sibling relationship/existence between materials. Hidden in the spaces between these hard planes, hidden texts suggest both a possible conflagration of materials and emotions and missed or fleeting pairings that have passed each other by.

Huang collaborates with these materials: exploring and demonstrating how they can be joined, how they can balance each other. This process encompasses both the weight of the materials and the lightness of her touch. How and where the materials – and we – meet – in time and space – is important. Permanence and impermanence coexist. Some elements might last forever, and some for only a passing moment, as her minimalist forms move together and apart, defining what lasts and what does not.