WEIXIN HUANG
Lurmin's Anatomy
This work stems from a larger project built on a fictional premise: a teddy bear falls to Earth as an asteroid and becomes a scientific specimen.
Here, the focus is on its “substance.” The stones and the small meteorite point to the cosmic origin of matter—elements forged in ancient stars crashed to Earth and later formed both life and industrial materials. The front shows a bear with a chest that opens like a medical mechanism; the back side arranges these elemental stones around the meteorite, transforming the toy into a small geological map.
For SUBSTANCE / REIMAGINED project: this project reinterprets a familiar object by revealing its deep material genealogy (origin): even an industrially manufactured toy is, after all, still made of star matter.
Material
Silver, copper, cloisonné enamel, meteorite, amber, opal, peridot, citrine, onyx, lab-grown diamond, glass, electrical cable
Technique
Cloisonné enamel
WEIXIN HUANG, United Kingdom
Huang Weixin is an artist working in the fields of jewelry making and small kinetic structures, as well as metalwork, enamelling and drawing. With a background in animation and metalworking, her approach moves flexibly between narrative thinking and material problem solving. Her practice develops through an iterative process of making, rather than following the pre-determined plans. Often her creative process begins with an unusual idea or uncertainty and letting the object define its own logic. She is interested in curiosity, absurd thinking and how constructed forms such as boxes, mechanisms and layered surfaces influence the way we search for meaning in physical things.
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