Visual artist Xingchen Guo Follow.Art Card

About me

My practice is driven by a simple but persistent question: what truly constitutes a body, a person, or even a structure? Rather than searching for a fixed essence, I am interested in the possibility that there may be no stable essence at all.

Through sculpture, textiles, and printed surfaces, I use ornament, clothing, and beauty not as decoration but as constructive forces. What appears superficial gradually becomes the structure itself. I am drawn to a kind of deliberately hollow beauty—not to conceal meaning, but to ask whether appearance can become a way of holding existence when certainty can no longer be found.

My works do not offer answers. Instead, they remain suspended between surface and substance, questioning how identity and presence are continuously constructed through what we choose to see.