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Xuchi
Naungayan Eggleton
refers to her work as “baroque minimalist,” a phrase which is both
precise and insufficient; while it captures the physical and conceptual
complexity of Xuchi’s sculptures, the phrase misses the all-important
influence of nature. Eggleton describes her work as looking like “it’s
pulled out of geological time,” a “manmade geological phenomena.”
Paradoxically, this very purity - the purity of time and the forces of
nature – is an methodically crafted illusion. Though they mimic the
forms and patterns of rock, eroded by wind and water, or of shards of
ice and stone, Eggleton’s sculptures are in truth meticulously
hand-crafted. While their form and composition suggest stability and
weight, they are surprisingly light, delicate, and soft. They suggest
centuries of harsh weather and a context of wild exposure, but we know
they are the youthful output of a contemporary studio, not yet in
existent during those long centuries, but present in the seed of
inspiration passed.
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