XIAO GE

Soft Fragments

Solo Exhibition

29 December 2025 — 6 January 2026

Sol de Paris
17 rue Chapon
75003 Paris, France

Curated by Han Yue

Exhibition Introduction

Soft Fragments brings together a series of moving-image works by Xiao Ge, exploring the unstable conditions of identity as it unfolds through memory, migration, and bodily perception.

Within Xiao Ge’s visual language, the body is no longer a fixed or coherent form. Instead, it appears as a shifting constellation of fragments—mirrored, duplicated, displaced, or partially dissolved within digital space. Through reflections, fractured surfaces, and non-linear temporal structures, the works construct an environment in which images function as traces rather than stable representations.

Light becomes a central activating force in this process. It reveals fleeting moments while simultaneously producing new ruptures within the image. Memories surface in fragments, overlapping with bodily sensations and emotional residues, forming a layered field of perception where past and present continuously intersect.

In this context, fragmentation does not signify absence or loss. Rather, it operates as a generative condition through which identity becomes negotiable and fluid. The body, suspended between visibility and disappearance, emerges as a site of ongoing reconstruction—shaped by cultural displacement, intergenerational memory, and the subtle tensions between intimacy and estrangement.

Through Soft Fragments, Xiao Ge proposes a poetics of multiplicity: a space where identities are not resolved into singular forms, but unfold through fragile moments of illumination.

Artworks

Fragmented Selves Series

Artist
Xiao Ge

Year
2026

Medium
Digital Video

Duration
4 min 27 s

Description

In diverse spaces and moments, light emerges silently, illuminating fleeting instants while simultaneously creating new ruptures and echoes. Triggered by light, images unfold as fragments where memory, body, and emotion surface, overlap, and dissolve.

Through mirror imagery, fractured surfaces, and non-linear editing, the work explores psychological fragmentation and the shifting states of identity shaped by migration, cultural friction, and intergenerational transmission.

Bodies within the frames appear disassembled, duplicated, or displaced. The self no longer functions as a unified form, but as an assemblage continually negotiated through partial experiences.

Fragmentation here becomes a generative condition—identity appears only in illuminated moments, revealing itself as layered, unstable, and fluid.

Beneath Soft

Artist
Xiao Ge

Year
2025

Medium
Digital Video

Duration
2 min 36 s

Description

Beneath Soft explores the generative state of the body between suppleness and fragility, conceiving the body as a fluid interface continuously touched, shaped, and reorganised.

Within soft folds and shifting textures, the boundaries of the body become unstable. Softness emerges not as weakness, but as a quiet force—both protective and transformative, redefining how the body is perceived.

The work asks how the body might respond to the world when it is no longer defined by rigid external structures, and how fragility itself may become a source of strength.

Artist

Xiao Ge

Social media
@xiaoge_mmm

Xiao Ge is a visual artist working primarily with digital moving images. Her practice explores the relationship between body, perception, and fragmented memory within contemporary conditions shaped by migration and cultural translation.

Through the use of reflection, layered imagery, and non-linear editing, her works investigate the instability of identity and the ways in which the body becomes a site where personal and collective histories intersect.

Venue

Sol de Paris
17 rue Chapon
75003 Paris
France