Yanis Khannoussi and the Echo of Absence: Sculpture as Living Memory

On view for the first time in China, Yanis Khannoussi brings his visionary poetics to a collection of sculptures that explore the relationship between the finite and the infinite, between what remains and what disappears. In works characterized by shimmering hues and fluid forms, the French artist gives shape to the intangible, transforming absence, memory, and time into physical matter. At the heart of the project is The Missing Star - To my father, a deeply personal yet universal tribute, where a sphere missing its star becomes a symbol of what is no longer there, yet continues to speak through emptiness. A void that is tangible, alive, and thought-provoking. From our limited, human perspective, the perfect sphere becomes an ellipse, the guiding form in Khannoussi’s aesthetic. Bent, cut, distorted - it is the ellipse, not the sphere, that reveals the threshold between the physical world and the metaphysical. Moving between industrial space and poetic vision, Khannoussi constructs an atlas of loss and longing.