About
Ouyang’s practice persistently hovers between spiritual perfection and material decay. He employs AI-generated imagery as a vehicle for rational design—precise, impersonal, and deliberately stripped of the artist’s subjective hand—in pursuit of a flawless and restrained formal aesthetic. These images are then transferred onto unstable, degradable material surfaces, where idealized forms begin to disintegrate within the physical medium.
This disintegration does not occur as sudden destruction, but as a subtle, repetitive, and irreversible process. It gradually erodes what was once understood as “the ideal.” Working between Apollonian order and Dionysian disorder, the artist weaves a language in which decay is treated as a mode of arrival rather than a sign of termination.
In his view, images can be endlessly replicated through shifts in medium, while the fate of material cannot be reproduced. Perfect generation inevitably leads toward destruction; this internal paradox constitutes both the point of departure and the ultimate destination of his visual practice.