CHAMBER: Alice Gong Xiaowen
Asymptote, circling
March - May 2024

Alice Gong Xiaowen (Canadian, b. 1994, Beijing) is an interdisciplinary artist and a knowledge seeker. In Xiaowen’s practice, material translations of matter and haptic memories imagine the collapse and reconfiguration of object-hood. These iterative processes of translation—rendered in iron, dough, paper, stone—bear witness to the exhaustive effort to hold onto that which is constantly in a stage of atrophy—to fashion relics from fugitive remnants of personal and cultural memory re-conjured through sound, texture, and impression. In Xiaowen’s work, repetitive, indexical gestures function as a form of meditation on anticipated loss, a means of mitigating that which is becoming distant and disintegrating, yet always returning.

Xiaowen has recently been included in a two-person show at House of Seiko, San Francisco and group exhibitions at Franz Kaka, Toronto; Silke Lindner, New York; and Duplex, New York. She holds a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently completing an MFA from Yale School of Art.