After participating to a few exhibitions in the 1990s, Xiao Jun, born in 1965, suddenly withdrew from the art circle, without ceasing creating works. This solo show gathers series of works from 1996 to nowadays.

Generally speaking, Xiao Jun’s works present a recurrent structure: frames divided into compartments as windows or boxes, superimposition of materials into different layers, etc., while contents vary from colored geometrical compositions to Western magazines’ images and texts, or even terra cotta objects with furs and feathers….. In “Showcase”, three series of works will be presented:

“Shallow depth: just as skin is the most sensible part of the human body, easily worn and modified, when I paint, I sometime feel that I am touching or applying makeup on skin.
Candy box: each day people open their eyes and read. I displayed things I read, that used to be new, between still sheets. They are unbelievable, as transparent, uneaten, fascinating candies.
Showcase: the display in “Showcase” is composed of things, related to each other or not, resembling to a certain ideal space. People (things close to people) usually are the elements in space that attract me the most. My showcases and my inner thoughts coincide into one same energy.”

“Meanings (or things) that we wish to hide the most in works are usually easy to notice, but even revealed they won’t make a “soul-stirring” noise.
Covering over and over a work isn’t recommendable, but I often do that, then the original content loses its meaning and the anxiety of the moment is added to it.
It’s all related to my own private life, only these tangled unclear things can be controlled, the production process is random, unconscientious.
I’m always deeply touched by images, I hardly (almost never) remember experiences coming from words, images became my diary. 
I have always been focused on external beauty, some friends consider that I show an utter unconcerned delight for images, this is a relevant qualification, I am infatuated with these “two dimensional characters”. If I was one of them, how would that be?
Just as child’s drawings, pleasure is very important while meanings they embody are unintentional, even incompatible with the environment, answers to the why and the wherefore are unobtainable, there’s only “me”.” -- Xiao Jun.