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XUCHI NAUNGAYAN EGGLETON
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Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton refers to her work as “baroque minimalist,” a phrase which is both precise and insufficient; while it captures the physical and conceptual complexity of Xuchi’s sculptures, the phrase misses the all-important influence of nature. Eggleton describes her work as looking like “it’s pulled out of geological time,” a “manmade geological phenomena.” Paradoxically, this very purity - the purity of time and the forces of nature – is an methodically crafted illusion. Though they mimic the forms and patterns of rock, eroded by wind and water, or of shards of ice and stone, Eggleton’s sculptures are in truth meticulously hand-crafted. While their form and composition suggest stability and weight, they are surprisingly light, delicate, and soft. They suggest centuries of harsh weather and a context of wild exposure, but we know they are the youthful output of a contemporary studio, not yet in existent during those long centuries, but present in the seed of inspiration passed.