Xiang Jing (artist)

Xiang Jing is considered highly satirical and there are questions that are raised surrounding the plight of the post-feminist movement of women.

She captures the current trends, some popular activities that contemporary women indulge in (clubbing, shopping, etc.).

Before making this batch of sculptures, I reflected on why I have always avoided a feminist stance, though in truth I confront gender roles.

"Your Body" came really out of my instinct and nature; I accumulated knowledge and experience to that extent and produced such a work with so much effort, but I have always wanted to transcend it."

Her personality is a blend of bohemian free spirit and down-to-earth common sense, underscored by a feisty mental attitude towards life and art.

Life saw fit to place this personality in a delicate physical frame, and set behind a pair of large round eyes, the innocence of which belies this woman's talent for penetrating insight.

Where, to date, Xiang Jing's art has focused on the female form, the woman's body has evolved as a conduit for her observations on the state of women in contemporary China: observations that, in early 2008, she decided to draw together in one exhibition, and to act as a denouement for this phase of her career.

— Karen Smith[3]After going through numerous births and miscarriages, Xiang Jing intends to conclude the stage of her work that concerns the "female body."

The scaffolding has yet to be removed, but a mood of festive observance is in the air.For an artist to conclude a stage in her creative work usually means that her passion and energy toward the theme has found release, and she realizes that to continue would lead to nothing but self-replication of a certain few pieces.

Xiang Jing's present achievements in sculpture give ample proof of her singular strength within a certain thematic range.