Jianqiang (Vincent)  Xia





Boundary 05–2025
Boundary examines how form comes into being at the threshold between emergence and disappearance. Beginning with elemental architectural volumes and facades, the ceramic works operate as boundary structures—positioned between solidity and void. Though seemingly closed, folds, misalignments, and fractures suggest the presence of unseen interior spaces.

Here, a boundary is not merely a dividing line, but a condition for space to exist—a line drawn that allows emptiness to be perceived. As an architect, I am less concerned with producing usable architecture than with returning to a fundamental question: when function and narrative are removed, can form alone still establish space?

The material nature of ceramics—both fragile and self-supporting—keeps these structures suspended between stability and collapse. They resemble unnamed architectural prototypes or residual spatial traces, lingering between form and emptiness.


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