London, announced July 21-25, 2025 – Galleria Objects, 92 Brick Lane, London E1 6RL, Branches and containers: The ecology of relatives and intimacy He was a Chinese artist Xinyue liang’s Recent solo exhibitions offer an exciting quest for ceramics as a language to rethink families. Over the course of five days, the exhibition held a dialogue between two interrelated tasks. Jar Series and Coral Series– Through Leanne’s questioning of parentship, women’s growth, and the architecture of intergenerational continuity.
Jar Series It was inspired by the familiar silhouette of a traditional Chinese storage vessel. However, these tasks went beyond functionality and became memory and impact repository. The surfaces of those textures resemble growth rings, wood grain, or fragments of home life, evoking inherited layers of narratives. Some rims were intentionally irregular and displayed openness and permeability in communication, while others were tall and slender standing, embodying the desire for continuity and resilience within the family structure. It served as a material ratio phor for parental care, lineage, and tension between heredity and rupture rather than a container of objects.
in contrast, Coral Series It brought ecological metaphor to the ceramic space. These branched structures, rendered in white porcelain, resemble certain interdependent organisms. Their shape suggests both vulnerability and resilience, reflecting the delicate balance of family dynamics, and more specifically the role of women. Some of the works appeared as symbols of thriving coral colonies, vitality and growth. Others presented a more abstract construct, suggesting a coexistence, negotiation and kinship trajectory. The whiteness of the clay amplified this tension – it quickly became pure and exposed, and lived at the same time vulnerable.
The exhibition’s design resisted linear storytelling. Instead, the bottles and corals were placed in close proximity, creating an environment where their shapes echoed and contradicted, not felt like a gallery, but rather an ecosystem. Visitors experienced relatives not as fixed facilities but as porous, evolving organisms.
Importantly, his wife’s approach to pottery did not rely on nostalgia or a simple revival of tradition. Instead, she placed the medium as a translation site. There, materiality and abstraction allowed us to open up questions about modern Chinese families. Her work blurred the line between utilitarian and symbolic memories and collective narratives, offering pottery as both objects and minor phors.
Finally, Branches and ships They demonstrated that the family was neither static nor one-way. It is a structure that contains leaks, leaks and regeneration, like coral reefs and clay containers. Lean invited viewers to imagine kinship relationships as ecology. It’s quickly vulnerable and resilient, intimate yet penetrating, rooted in tradition, and is constantly being rewritten now.
Exhibition details
Branches and containers: The ecology of relatives and intimacy
Solo exhibition by Xinyue liang
Galleria Objects, 92 Brick Lane, London E1 6RL July 21-25, 2025
Source: Our Culture – ourculturemag.com
