Jianqiang (Vincent)  Xia





Echo Fossil07–2025
Formed through layers of clay compressed and carved, Echo Fossil preserves traces of movement and time. Its striated surfaces resemble geological waves—echoes fossilized in silence.

The work imagines fossils as recordings of forgotten vibrations, where matter itself becomes an archive of resonance. Each contour captures a fragment of sound, suggesting that even what has vanished continues to murmur beneath the surface.

Fragments of Infinity10–2025
This work draws from the geometric patterns and architectural motifs of Islamic art, reassembled into a new structural and spatial language. Through reconfiguration and layering, it transforms traditional ornamentation into a contemporary expression of rhythm and openness.

The piece reflects on the relationship between infinity and order — where geometry becomes both a spiritual symbol and a living architecture. In repetition and variation, the fragments resonate with one another, tracing a path toward unity within multiplicity.

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.

Beneath the Ashes06–2025
Composed of reclaimed clay sediments, Beneath the Ashes is born from cycles of collapse, fusion, and transformation. Through the unpredictable chemistry of fire, the surface solidifies into rugged landscapes—textures reminiscent of eroded earth and nascent growth.

The work reflects on material rebirth, where what was once discarded finds new vitality through process and persistence. In these vessels of residue and renewal, matter remembers its former states, and within the ashes, a quiet breath of life begins again.



Sprouts of Ruins08–2024

These two smaller ceramic pieces take on mushroom-like forms, continuing the metaphor of rebirth. Emerging from a dark, rough base, they appear as quiet pulses of life rising within stillness. The clay’s surface undulates like spreading spores, suggesting nature’s slow return through the remnants of the artificial. Fungal Growth embodies sensitivity and endurance—it speaks of organisms that locate vitality in silence and thrive through interdependence. As urban debris shifts into living ground, these fragile yet persistent forms signal the early pulse of another ecological order.




City of Tubes10–2024

This ceramic installation is composed of densely clustered white tubular forms, resembling a miniature city emerging from ruins. The tubes rise and fall like a field of breathing structures—part architecture, part organism. It symbolizes reconstruction after collapse, the birth of a new order between the artificial and the organic.




The Porcelain  Wall05–2023
The work is constructed through slab-building. Soft clay slabs are folded, bent, stretched, and assembled within a restrained planar field. The resulting form resembles a wall, yet it resists conventional architectural functions. It does not divide or enclose, but remains open—suggesting a surface that can be entered, read, and imagined.

From an architectural perspective, this is a decentralized structure. The wall becomes a mediator rather than a boundary. The gaps, undulations, and overlaps between slabs generate a spatial rhythm that hovers between order and openness.

Rather than presenting a finished ideal, The Porcelain Wall proposes an ongoing condition—a quiet utopia formed through coexistence, where individuality is preserved and shared space emerges through accumulation.
Fissures 05–2024
Here, the fissure is not a sign of damage, but a mode of revelation. It allows multiple layers to coexist within a single plane, making time, pressure, and memory visible through material form. The work reads less as a surface than as a section—an exposed crosscut where boundaries remain unstable and form is continually unfolding.

Resembling both geological fault lines and eroded architectural facades, these pieces inhabit a tension between control and release, holding a restrained yet persistent presence.


Fissures  07–2024
Here, the fissure is not a sign of damage, but a mode of revelation. It allows multiple layers to coexist within a single plane, making time, pressure, and memory visible through material form. The work reads less as a surface than as a section—an exposed crosscut where boundaries remain unstable and form is continually unfolding.

Resembling both geological fault lines and eroded architectural facades, these pieces inhabit a tension between control and release, holding a restrained yet persistent presence.



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