Life Loop
Artist： Huanhuan Duan
My artistic practice originates from a renewed reflection on the order of life. For me, the drastic changes in my physical experience and the loss of a life companion were not merely traumatic events, but two profound revelations. They drew me away from a result-oriented, functional logic and led me toward a deeper contemplation of existence, disappearance, and rebirth.
Five years of training in spatial design have shaped my sensitivity to translating energy and emotion into spatial form. I tend to deconstruct and reconstruct intimate personal experiences and complex collective emotions into semi-transparent installations with a sense of breath and quiet movement. Through the fluidity of light and shadow, the tactile boundaries of materials, and rhythmic cycles within structure, I attempt to establish a poetic sensitivity toward fragile life within rational frameworks.
Creation, for me, is a process of dismantling experience and reorganizing it into new forms. By simulating skeletal visual structures, I explore the resilience that emerges after rupture and repair. My works seek to construct aquiet and enveloping environment, inviting viewers to engage physically with the space and to reflect calmly andintrospectively on the relationship between life and death.
About Life Loop
This work explores life not as a linear progression, but as a spiral structure—iterative, expanding, and continuously in motion. Rather than moving toward fixed endings, life unfolds through cycles of rupture, repair, and regeneration.
The project emerged during 2024–2025, a period marked by personal loss and physical vulnerability. During this time, the artist’s cat passed away, and she underwent two surgeries in close succession. These experiences brought an acute awareness of fragility, absence, and the irreversible passage of time. Instead of perceiving these events as isolated disruptions, the artist began to understand them as structural elements shaping an ongoing life trajectory.