SHANG ZHEXING
尚哲星

Shang Zhexing was born in Henan, China in 2000. He received his BFA degree from School of Visual Arts in New York and completed his MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ​His practice begins with the immediate and intimate material qualities evoked by graphite and charcoal. The marks they leave on paper carry an irreversible weight—evoking a density and heaviness akin to sedimentation and accumulation. Yet this weight is not static; it is interrupted and redirected in moments of spontaneity, giving rise to flowing lines, shifting shapes, and fleeting biomorphic imagery. These interventions—accidental and momentary—cause the image to oscillate between heaviness and lightness. In his work, heaviness manifests as a sense of volume and pressure, the tactile thickness of the medium’s trace, and the emotional deposits rooted in childhood memories of drawing and early visual impressions. It holds the psychological weight of the individual shaped by sociocultural contexts. Lightness, in contrast, emerges in the fluid transitions between forms—from figuration to abstraction, from order to disorder—enabling brief moments of freedom and generative openness through chance. Through the juxtaposition and interaction of divergent forms, boundaries are constantly touched and rewritten—the relationships between self and collective, norm and deviation, become visible in tension. His compositions unfold within the interplay of these dual forces, retaining the density of accumulated experience while embracing the fluidity of transformation. This ongoing dialogue reflects his engagement with presence, perception, and personal condition.

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尚哲星，2000年出生于河南郑州，本科和研究生先后毕业于纽约视觉艺和芝加哥艺术学院研。他的创作起始于铅与炭在画面中所激发出的直接而亲密的媒介特性。它们在纸面留下的痕迹带有不可逆的重量——如同存在本身的沉甸与厚实。然而，这些重量并非静止，它们在随机性的瞬间中被打破、被引导，生成流动的线条、变幻的形状与短暂的生物意象。这些偶然与瞬时的介入，让画面在轻与重之间来回摆荡。在他的作品中，重是体积与压力感的显现，是媒介触感与痕迹的厚度，也是根植于童年绘画记忆与早期视觉印象的情感沉积；它承载着个体在社会文化背景下的心理重量。而轻，则是形态间的自由转换、从具象到抽象、从有序到无序的过渡，是随机性带来的短暂自由与开放生成。在不同形态的并置与互动中，边界被不断触碰与改写——个体与集体、常态与非常态之间的关系在张力中显露。他的画面在两种力量的交织中生成，既延续沉积与承载的厚度，也拥抱流动与变化的开放性。这种持续的对话，是他对存在、经验与自身处境的回应。

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