CLOVER XUESONG ZHOU

  • Infinity Series - Sculpture
  • Infinity Series - Painting
  • Stop Emptiness? Stop in Vain断空?空断
  • Woven loop sculpture made from rolled paper strips, twisting in a continuous band with multiple rotations, mounted on a weathered wood base with bamboo supports.
  • Woven loop sculpture made from rolled paper strips, twisting in a continuous band with multiple rotations, mounted on a weathered wood base with bamboo supports.
  • Woven loop sculpture made from rolled paper strips, twisting in a continuous band with multiple rotations, mounted on a weathered wood base with bamboo supports.
  • Woven loop sculpture made from rolled paper strips, twisting in a continuous band with multiple rotations, mounted on a weathered wood base with bamboo supports.
paper, sycamore logs, bamboo
forthcoming

Artist's Statement

This sculptural work extends the Infinity Series paintings into three dimensions, translating its system of rotational loops into woven form. The series comprises ten structures (0–9), each derived from a loop defined by a specific number of 180-degree rotations, yielding figures that are both constrained and infinitely variable.

The loops are constructed from rolled sheets of recycled paper, drawings made by my young son, woven into continuous bands. What was once fragmented and ephemeral is reconfigured into a robust, interdependent structure.

To transform one loop into another, it must be broken and rejoined. Here, that process is literal. The work draws on this act of re-binding as both structure and meaning, suggesting continuity through rupture and return.

Mounted on salvaged sycamore and supported by reclaimed bamboo, the sculptures foreground materials marked by use, damage, and neglect. In doing so, they propose a revaluation: what is overlooked or discarded always carries form, meaning, and the possibility of renewal.