Jialun Xiong

Her practice is deeply informed by the layered urban landscape of her hometown, defined by steep topographies, dense layered urban infrastructure and a complex interplay between natural and built environments. 

Drawing inspiration from both Chongqing's sprawling architecture and the skeletal steel structures of mid 20th century modernism, Xiong develops pieces that foreground their underlying frameworks. By deliberately exposing structural elements, she elevates linens from their purely functional components to defining visual features, allowing them to shape the overall composition. Rather than pursuing minimalism, her work pushes the expressive potential of construction itself. Structure becomes language: linear systems intersect, extend and unfold, creating objects that feel at once architectural and graphic. This approach reflects an interest in revealing how things are made, while also reimagining the aesthetic possibilities embedded within those systems. 

Xiong’s designs often balance precision with openness, embracing both rigidity and fluidity. Through this tension, her work invites a reconsideration of form, not as a fixed outcome but as a dynamic interplay between material, structure and space.