Xiaoxiao Terri Jia
Through sculpture and photography, this work investigates ideas of cultural construction and the natural world. I am working on a new series of photographs, animation and video works that explores the intimate connection between traditional Chinese medicine and Western systems of physiology. The sculptures are made from the medical herbs used to treat each of the five +1 elements. The project draws on the five elements that are crucial human organs in Chinese medical research, known as the liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney. The other +1 element is the brain, which is indispensable to humans and defined as an independent organ in Chinese medical research.
In my artworks, photography is used to document them all as surrealist sculptures. The aesthetic design of the sculptures of Chinese medicine represent a novel version of Chinese culture.
Stomach, 2020
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Lung, 2020
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Kidney, 2020
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Liver, 2020
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Heart, 2020
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Brain, 2020
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