Artist Profile Xi Hsu

Hsu’s incandescent figures gracefully express a raw and vulnerable corporeality in flux.

Artist Statement

This series of works deals with my body and its state of being between identity and flesh. Peeling is a series of works that embodies a few vulnerable moments with an inward perspective of selfhood. The tactual visual form invites and, at the same time, resists the viewers’ deeper examination of corporeality. In essence, this series of works reflects the human condition, a meditation on fragility and the transient moments in the passage.

Artist Biography

Xi Hsu is an artist who lives and works in Taiwan and Japan. Since he won the Union Foundation Young Realistic Painter Award in 2006, he turned his focus on various art from art and mental illness, socially-engaged art to art education in the next decade. In 2015, he received a doctoral degree in creative arts from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

In recent years, Hsu has returned to painting. His work explores the visual-tactile space of painting. Ranging from nature to human form, the subject matter plays the role of activating a scene of fact. Hsu hopes his audience to reflect on their own experience while they encounter his paintings as if they become a physical extension of them.