"Singapore-based artist Ng Jia Xi utilizes performance as her main medium. Impressions is a quiet response to More Than Just Wind, a performance that contemplates the meditative act of stacking stones while interrupting the performer’s access to sight and sound. In a world saturated with sensory overload, the performance becomes a gesture of deliberate isolation—an inward retreat into the body, the breath, and the fragile balance between movement and stillness. Rooted in Zen Buddhist philosophy, the practice of stone stacking becomes not just a physical action, but a spiritual exercise in patience, presence, and impermanence.

From this performance, Impressions emerges as a record of what lingers after action. The prints are made directly from the stones used in the performance—each mark carrying with it the weight, texture, and tension of what once was. These imprints are both presence and absence: traces of matter and memory, silence and stillness.

The relationship between paper and stone becomes central to this work. In a poetic inversion of nature, the paper used for these prints is made from stone itself—a material transformation that collapses time and material histories. What was once hard and weighty becomes soft and receptive; what once anchored becomes a surface for subtle marks. This duality mirrors the tension in the performance: strength and vulnerability, intention and surrender.

Through this convergence of body, object, and material, the artist nvites viewers to consider the delicate interplay between what we do and what we leave behind. Impressions is not merely documentation—it is a meditation on the ephemeral, an invitation to witness how even stone, when touched with care, can become a vessel for memory.