Song Ruijin (*2003, Kunming, China; lives and works between Geneva and Paris) develops a practice spanning painting, ceramics, metalwork, and printmaking. She approaches creation as a process of continuous digging, an inner “burrow” that is chaotic, secretive, and ever-expanding, where each work becomes an exploration without a fixed trajectory. Her painting emerges from an intuitive dialogue with the canvas, without a predetermined intention. Through layering, rotating, and disrupting images, she seeks to break visual automatisms and allow a raw form of vision to surface, letting herself be guided by the process rather than controlling it. Marked by a sensitivity to the fragility of life, shaped by childhood memories of death and an awareness of working-class labor, her work pays close attention to vulnerable existences and their quiet intensity.
A graduate of HEAD–Geneva, Song Ruijin recently exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at MALA, in Lisbon, organized in collaboration with Halle Nord.
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