Jiajun Song – SAIC Graduate Exhibition 2024

SAIC SHOWS 2024 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2024 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Jiajun Song

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Fiber and Material Studies

Graduate Exhibition Two

jsong46@artic.edu

Jiajun Song was born and raised in Yingkou, China. Influenced by Buddhism, Taoism and Shamanism, he travels between the external world and the internal world, the macro world and micro world by sewing, embroidering, re-weaving, and re-threading with the wasted objects from daily life. His practice delves into a natural state of existence, approaching the world with a retrospective outlook. He aims to cultivate an awareness of life’s quality and the value of objects in today’s excessively abundant existence. Ultimately, he seeks to convey a process that evokes feelings of slowness, serenity, tenacity, and eternal flow within a confined space through long-term, laborious practices. These mediums serve as a means to explore how the hand, as a tool, can collaborate with the material world, guiding the mind towards the microscopic realm of internal materials. He magnifies the vitality of objects through structure and texture, making those neglected objects and lives the entrance to decode the world model.

Jiajun Song graduated from the Fiber Art Department, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China with a bachelor degree on 2020. He is currently a second year grad student in Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

I am a resident, a wanderer, an observer, a leaf, an animal, a projection. My works are children of nature and life. In them, we can re-see the impermanence and equality of all things in nature, pay attention to the migrating life situation and feel its movement in the microscopic world.

I am a wandering child. In the long river of life, all the materials around me become my ark. One flower, one world, one leaf, one Bodhi. I explore the entrance to a harmonious world by communicating with the organizational structures of different materials and their unique temperaments. The old and broken fabric structure constructs my imagination of the birth of the universe; the hair and nails separated from my body become cocoons and worms of my wandering memories. I am close to dust, just like looking for myself in the vast sea of people; I like bubbles, just like knowing that life is a big dream.

To this end, I thread threads and use the tip of a needle to experience the struggle of the body between the warp threads, and meditate on how to lead to the freedom of the soul; I use scratching to blur the structure of the fabric, and see how the world gradually appears at the intersection of the blurred longitude and latitude. , thus giving birth to all things; I embrace stone and clay, they are attached to fabrics and packing foam pads, they are portable homelands.

My work provides a two-dimensional plane for the viewer to enter. But at the same time, like the wild flowers on the roadside and the clouds in the sky, through a large number of easily overlooked details and images, I leave the right to the audience to pay attention to the work. Images will emerge under the illumination of light, just like how we cast our eyes on those overlooked corners and relationships in the course of life, and the process of observing the works is also a process of how a person carefully observes his own life and maintains curiosity.