南歆媛：比天使微小一点 XINYUAN NAN: A Little Lower Than the Angels
艺术家 Artists: 南歆媛 XINYUAN NAN
2026-01-17 – 2026-01-31 · 杭州 Hangzhou · L Gallery
“比天使微小一点”是对人的描述。 “A Little Lower Than the Angels” is, at its core, a description of the human condition.
我非常着迷于用非常宏大的概念来对比描述一个相对较小的概念，因为其能够让我在浩瀚的时间空间叙事下精准找到作为一个小个体的位置，然后作为小个体的我的感知被放大，在自己的内心中又派生出了一个独特的宏大世界，一切有了意义，我接着思考，最后进行了表达。
从小浸润在东方文化的环境下，我的创作非常需要通过对一个物象的描绘来表达和承载自己的情感，人变成了创作中故事的叙述者，串联着画面中的每一处描绘。
此次展览基于与“人”相关的话题，想要通过自己对于生死的浅薄认识去轻微触及一下在广袤无垠的时间空间概念中之于我自己的意义。愿我能够通过自己作品的每一处，在自己营造出来的小小世界的同一条河流里窥探自己两次。
也愿我的创作能够带给你一些感受和想法，因为我始终觉得自己的创作需要等到你站在我画前的那一刻才算完满。创作可能会比较私人，但有些感受总能被触发，这是属于我们的，人的默契。 I have always been fascinated by the use of immense and expansive concepts to describe something comparatively small. Such a contrast allows me to locate my own position as an individual within vast narratives of time and space. From that vantage point, my perceptions as a small and ordinary person are amplified, giving rise to an inner world that is itself immense and singular. Through this process, things acquire meaning; I begin to reflect, and eventually, to create.
Having grown up immersed in Eastern cultural traditions, my artistic practice relies deeply on the depiction of objects and images as vessels for emotion. Within my work, the human figure becomes a narrator—connecting disparate elements and guiding the stories that unfold across the surface of the painting.
This exhibition revolves around questions of humanity. Through my own limited understanding of life and death, I hope to gently approach the question of what my existence might mean within the immeasurable dimensions of time and space. Through every detail of these works, I hope to glimpse myself twice in the same river flowing through the small world I have created.
I also hope that these works may evoke thoughts and feelings of your own. I have always believed that an artwork is not truly complete until the moment a viewer stands before it. The act of creation may begin from something deeply personal, yet certain emotions have a way of resonating beyond the self. That resonance belongs to all of us—a quiet understanding shared between human beings.
