Born 1995, China. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Instagram: @shuaixu_studio
Since 2021 I have filed everything I make under the catalog name of something in the sky. M105 is a galaxy. Wolf 1069 b is a planet around another star. HE0450-2958 is a quasar, and its name is nothing more than its position. No one will ever visit any of them. What we have is an address, and an address is exact about where a thing is and silent about what it means.
I borrowed this way of naming because it says as much as I can honestly say about my own work. A piece starts with something I notice and cannot account for, and I have never wanted to account for it; anything I could explain I would not need to make. What I can do is decide where it goes.
A name is not a title. Under 4C+37.11 there is a painting, then a black circle on snow filmed from the air, then other things, each leaking into the next. None of them outranks the others. The work is the whole set, in the way a galaxy is not any one of its stars.
The works under M105 are boxes. The outside of each is painted, and it is public: it can be exhibited, photographed and, by now, learned by a machine that will turn out as many more as you like. The inside is finished too, and no one but me has seen it as I left it. It has never been photographed or described, and it is the one place where I work with no system and no style to keep to. Whoever acquires a box acquires the inside as well, to open, to leave shut for good, or to change, and owes me no account of it. I keep no record, so there is no original to return to. Once a box has left the studio I stand where everyone else does. I know it exists, and I do not know what is in it.
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