Siqi Fan — CalArts Post Grad Show Y25

Siqi Fan

(Photo/Media MFA 25)
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Disorientation, 2025

Siqi Fan’s corner installation combines a sculptural side table — two inverted children’s chairs joined with a glass top — and a wall piece built from burlap, plaster, cement, and ceramic textures that translates fresco painting’s layered surface into fractured, tactile language. The work explores disorientation and the search for order within chaos, drawing from personal mythologies to reconfigure familiar domestic objects and traditional materials into unfamiliar forms. The installation questions balance, function, and shifting boundaries between domestic and symbolic, with the fresco wall piece marking a shift in her practice — its process of binding pigment to wet plaster evoking endurance and vulnerability, deepening interest in what is preserved, what decays, and who decides what is worth remembering. The inverted children’s chairs suggest how domesticity and childhood can be destabilized or reconfigured, transforming playful and functional objects into structures that appear both stable and precarious.

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CalArts 2025