š£ SaltSpace is delighted to announce 'Home, as it is.' by Iris Jingyi Zeng & Xinyu Huang.
š PV: 3rd Mar 6-9PM
š Continues: 4th-5th March 10am-5pm, 6th March 10am-1pm
šSaltSpace Gallery, 38 Albert Road, Glasgow, G42 8DN
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
This exhibition is a dialogue on āhomeā, presenting two artistsā responses to the notion of "home" as it emerges from their respective lived experiences. In the Home series, Xinyu Huang approaches a āhomeā that feels distant yet remains root-connected to her, through which she senses the forces of family history and intergenerational memory acting upon her life. In Where the Trees Remember, Iris Jingyi Zeng engages with an intermediate state of āhomeā amidst repeated movement and dwelling, by unfolding a process of gradually emptying a long-inhabited space.
Within this dialogue, āhomeā is no longer a specific place, nor is it confined to a particular emotional memory. Instead, it emerges as an experience that is continuously formed and loosened within the flow of being, amidst the tensions between presence and absence, familiarity and distance, connection and rupture. It is both a pull and a point of rupture, both an origin and a direction in constant reconfiguration. Arising from the surface of everyday life, as well as from echoes of memory not yet fully dispersed, āhomeā becomes a threshold intimately bound to oneās being, an ever-perceptible anchoring of the self ā as it is.
ARTISTS
@aiirisu_iris (b.1996, Yunnan, China) is a visual artist working in London. Her artistic practice centres on analogue photography, extended through moving image and material experimentation. Grounded in darkroom and printmaking processes, her work attends to the material and temporal layering through which images are carried forward.
@xinyu.hh (b.1998, Chongqing, China) is a practice-based PhD researcher at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Her practice centres on photography and extends into photography-based material and multi-media experimentation, examining how temporality and materiality intertwine.
