Jiang Jie

Jiang Jie is a celebrated Chinese sculptor and professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where she also earned her degree in sculpture and now teaches . Her emotionally resonant works often depict infants and organic forms rendered in fragile materials like wax, resin, and fiberglass, symbolizing vulnerability and the transience of life. Jiang’s practice merges installation and sculptural language to explore themes of human fragility, decay, and memory, emphasizing microscopic psychological detail within monumental formats. Her iconic piece BE (2001) features a baby’s face merged with an adult smile, expressing innocence, ambiguity, and existential tension born from China’s one‑child era. With a deeply humanistic and anthropological lens, Jiang rejects simplistic feminist labels, instead creating paradigm‑shifting works that probe collective experience and the edge‑states of existence.