Jingmin Ren Artist Vision 2026: Where Are We? Who Are We? What Remains？
Jingmin Ren 任静敏, Artist Vision 2026—between self and world, lived time and the forces of nature.
Where are we? Who are we? What remains?
These questions run through my interdisciplinary practice, moving between cosmic scale, natural cycles and intimate human experience.
My work explores time, light, nature, cultural astronomy and inner experience through painting, Chinese calligraphy, seal imprints, mixed media, public art and sculpture. I am interested in how we locate ourselves within cycles of nature, cultural memory and lived time, and how we continually reconsider our relationship with the world around us.
Where are we?
Through Solar Longitude – Time Orbit and my ongoing research into Spatial Time, I explore relationships between the Sun, Earth, seasonal change and human perception.
Solar longitude provides a shared astronomical coordinate, while seasonal experience shifts across hemisphere, ecology and place. Art becomes a way for me to reconsider how we perceive our relationship with natural cycles and time.
Who are we?
In XINYIN LIUNIAN® | 心印流年, I turn from cosmic scale towards lived experience. Drawing upon a working collection of approximately 1,000 Chinese leisure seals (闲章), together with papers of different material qualities, I explore how touch, language, memory and emotion guide acts of selection and imprinting.
Selection sometimes begins with touch. Material, body, language and memory enter into resonance through this process, and the resulting imprint becomes a trace of a particular encounter in lived time.
YUAN BOUNDLESS™ | 元无界
This ongoing body of work explores the shifting relationships between self and world, inner and outer experience, time and space.
Yuan (元) points towards origin, beginning and becoming; Boundless (无界) does not imply the erasure of difference, but considers how new relationships and meanings may emerge when established boundaries are opened.
In some works, this idea also unfolds through a dialogue between calligraphy and seal imprints. A seal may question, respond to, extend or reinterpret the written form, allowing meaning to emerge through the relationship between the two.
What remains?
I do not seek a final answer.
Perhaps what remains are traces of shared human experience and emotion—our encounters with nature, with one another, and with ourselves.
For me, art cannot fully answer this question. It gives form to a trace, a feeling, a memory or a moment of resonance, while leaving space for what remains beyond words.
Jingmin Ren 任静敏
Artist Statement, September 2026
Sydney, Australia
任静敏的艺术愿景 2026
我们在哪里？我们是谁？什么留存？
这三个问题贯穿我的跨学科艺术实践，使我的创作不断往返于宇宙尺度、自然循环与个体生命经验之间。
我的创作通过绘画、中国书法、印迹、综合材料、公共艺术与雕塑，探索时间、光、自然、文化天文学与人的内在体验。我关注我们如何在自然循环、文化记忆与生命时间中认识自身，并重新理解人与世界之间不断变化的关系。
我们在哪里？
通过《太阳黄经－时间轨道》（Solar Longitude – Time Orbit）以及持续发展的 Spatial Time（空间时间）研究，我探索太阳、地球、季节变化与人的感知之间的关系。
太阳黄经提供共享的天文坐标，而季节经验则随着半球、生态与地域而变化。艺术由此成为我重新感知人与自然时间关系的一种方式。
我们是谁？
在 XINYIN LIUNIAN® | 心印流年 中，我从宇宙尺度回到生命经验。以约一千枚中国闲章的收藏，以及不同材质特性的纸张为基础，我探索触觉、文字、记忆与情感如何引导选择与钤印。
选择有时从触摸开始。在这一过程中，材料、身体、语言与记忆彼此产生共鸣，而最终留下的印迹，成为生命时间中一次具体相遇的痕迹。
YUAN BOUNDLESS™ | 元无界
这一持续发展的艺术实践探索个体与世界、内在与外在、时间与空间之间不断变化的关系。
“元”指向本源、初始与生成；“无界”并非消除差异，而是思考当既定的边界被打开之后，新的关系与意义如何产生。
在部分作品中，这一思考也通过书写与印迹之间的对话展开。印可以对书写提出问题、作出回应、延伸或重新诠释，使意义在二者的关系之中生成。
什么留存？
我并不试图寻找一个最终答案。
或许留下的是人类共同体验与情感的痕迹——我们与自然、与他人，也与自己相遇的时刻。
对我而言，艺术并不能完全回答这个问题。它让一道痕迹、一种感受、一段记忆或一个共鸣的瞬间获得形式，同时也为那些言语无法完全表达的部分留下空间。
任静敏 Jingmin Ren
艺术家陈述，2026年9月
悉尼，澳大利亚
