Sailing on Memories and Hopes: Interview with Xiang Yang
By Nooshfar Afnan
Portrait of XIANG YANG. Courtesy the artist.
Xiang Yang’s hybrid boat-house installations—seen floating on a barge on London’s river Thames in 2015 or more recently on land at “Planet 9” presented by Kunsthalle Darmstadt—have become a key trope in his artistic practice. Perhaps this is because they so aptly encapsulate both his past memories, as well as his future hopes and have become a way for the artist to deal with his feelings of fragmentation and dislocation, representing his desire for a more unified and interconnected world.
