Archive of work by graduates from the renowned MFA Programme at GSA

Xiaojia Ouyang

Xiaojia Ouyang (b.1994) is a Chinese visual artist. In 2018, She received her bachelor’s degree from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, majoring in sculpture. Her sculpture skills are proven with the way her plasticine figures are modeled in her stop motion animation. Xiaojia Ouyang primarily uses stop motion, a slow animation method where a series of stills gives the illusion of movement to create animated worlds, capturing the deepest darkness to reveal the absurdity of society. She creates characters in plasticine which are politically and socially activated within claymation short films. Black humour is the key to her work because she rarely turns what she sees and hears directly into animation. Instead, she makes it with the power of mixed reality and imagination.

Xiaojia Ouyang’s current works, in a surreal and comical approach, are trying to discuss and reveal the great differences and contradictions between the East and the West exposed during the epidemic while to explore the current situation and psychological state of the individual during the lockdown.