BIOGRAPHY

Xuan Sue (b. 2003) is an artist based in Milan. She received her BFA in Visual Arts and Painting from NABA, Milan. Working across painting, performance, and installation, she employs materials ranging from mineral pigments to spray paint. Her practice investigates perceptual and embodied intensity, drawing from phenomenology, Material Culture Studies, and feminist anthropology. Through saturated color and physical gesture, her work explores how meaning emerges through friction rather than resolution.

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I am drawn to moments of intensity—when color nears vibration or when a subtle gesture shifts a room's atmosphere. These charged moments contain an unexpected stillness.

Following John Dewey's idea of "repose in stimulation," my work explores the tension between risk and presence, arousal and focus. Instead of seeking balance, it keeps this tension open and active.

Between paint and the body, between color and risk, the practice inhabits this charged, enduring tension.