Artist Statement/ Biography

Guo’s practice envisages the ontological dissociation and fragmentation of human subjectivity by reinventing formal relationships between painting and sculpture. In her work, the orientation toward a human-less, subject-less, and collapsed vision of space denotes an object-oriented fantasy overriding perceptions. Her inspiration comes from situations where human capability is alienated and relinquished, giving rise to impenetrable narratives. Through her back-and-forth sculpting of paint on surfaces, the almost present shapes are, however, quickly struck down beneath the negative space. Apparitions of figures and architecture are indefinitely incarcerated by this foiled attempt to proceed and be present onto the surface. What pulls for attention, then, is the landscape dissolving in-between presence and absence, reality and virtuality.

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Sihan Guo (b. 2000, Shanghai) lives and works in New York. She graduated from New York University with a BFA in Studio Art and a minor in Psychology in 2022. Her recent two-person exhibition Werewolf / Ferryman (Relic) was held at Commons Gallery of New York University in December 2022. Her works were also included in group exhibitions Soft City 2.0 at Chongqing Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China (2021); Will Barnet Student Show at National Arts Club, New York (2022); for some reason at Commons Gallery, New York (2022); and Cornell BFA Show at Olive Tjaden Gallery of Cornell University, Ithaca (2019).

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