Jinya Zhao
Holding Air, Holding Light
- The first monograph on Jinya Zhao, an artist whose perception-based practice encompasses sculpture, installation, and research across the UK, China, and the United States
- Includes 50 full-color images of Zhao’s blown glass works, spatial installations, and process-based experiments – visually articulating the fragility and flux of perceptual experience
- Features new writing by Emma Crichton-Miller and a conversation with Dr Xiaoxin Li of the V&A, offering critical and curatorial perspectives on Zhao’s work across material, cultural, and temporal contexts
Jinya Zhao: Holding Air, Holding Light explores the sculptural and perceptual practice of artist and researcher Jinya Zhao. Combining blown glass with drawing, installation, and spatial choreography, Zhao’s work occupies a liminal space between fragility and presence, memory and light. Rather than present finished objects, she creates conditions for perception – inviting viewers to pause and inhabit moments of perceptual suspension. “Glass is not what I make, but how I listen to time,” she writes. Integrating theory and practice, Zhao transforms glass into an artistic language that connects memory, perception, and experience. This book features an essay by arts writer Emma Crichton-Miller and a conversation with Dr Xiaoxin Li of the Victoria and Albert Museum. With 50 full-color images and bilingual text, Holding Air, Holding Light is both a meditation on perception and a space to dwell within.
Text in English and Chinese.
- Publisher
- Hurtwood Press Ltd
- ISBN
- 9781917627023
- Publish date
- 11th Nov 2025
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- USA & Canada
- Size
- 8.2 in x 9.25 in
- Pages
- 132 Pages
- Name of series
- Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
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