Works by Yang Xinguang are currently presented in the autumn group exhibition Improvisational Drift: New Directions in Ceramics at UCCA Clay.

The exhibition focuses on the diverse practices of nine emerging artists (and artist groups), presenting how they depart from different points of origin on this “map” and improvise across the terrain of contemporary ceramics. Through a continual negotiation between material properties, artisanal techniques, and their own creative logic, the artists reimagine the expressive and conceptual possibilities of clay, collectively revealing a new ceramic landscape centered on openness, transformation, and creative rebalancing.

In Snow Peach Blossom (2025), Yang Xinguang transforms locally sourced Yixing zisha clay into vessels for plant life, whose ambiguous relationship between breath and containment suggests the endless cycles of ecological renewal. By entangling, layering, and juxtaposing natural elements such as plants and soil with industrial materials, grass, wood, clay, and stone are no longer treated as passive matter, but instead assert themselves as active agents that infiltrate and subvert the narrative logic of modern development.